Show us your NovaBench Score

Hamnat · 22 Aug 2012

Wrend said:

Same here. I've been looking at the Corsair Force Series GT SSDs. They have up to 480GB ones now with read speeds up to 555 MBps over SATA 3 (not sure about write speeds).

I might try and hold out to get a 1TB one. We'll see. I like having a full backup on my installed drives just in case.

I will have to look into Corsair then. Amazon had a daily deal on SanDisk yesterday I almost got one just to try but I wanted to do more research.

w1dpc · 22 Aug 2012

low but i cant complain for a machine i bought for $260.00

essenbe · 22 Aug 2012

Here's mine

Wrend · 22 Aug 2012

Nice. Your 670 tested about the same as my 680 (within variation/margin of error).

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w1dpc said:

low but i cant complain for a machine i bought for $260.00

Hey, as long as it works for you. I spent ten times that on my system's internal components so far. Not bragging, just saying it isn't always worth it.

essenbe · 22 Aug 2012

Thanks. My 670 is overclocked a little. But, I'm not convinced of the accuracy of the tests. Did you notice the scores for hard drives? Most of the SSDs scored lower than the mechanical drives. I also question some of the graphics scores.

Wrend · 23 Aug 2012

I don't know how well it really does at a whole balanced test, but I think within the parameters that it tests, it does an OK job. For the SSDs/HDDs, it looks like it takes capacity into account and rates higher capacity more. So it is kind of arbitrary in the sense that not everyone is going to need the same specs to have a more than capable enough computer for their needs.

People definetly shouldn't base the worth of their computer just on different benchmark scores, unless it's specifically some kind of benchmarking competition computer.

Solarstarshines · 05 Dec 2012

Even @4.7Ghz still nowhere near Essenbe score's

essenbe · 05 Dec 2012

Tommy, I don't believe this test is even close to valid. You should have killed me in the graphics score, but look at the ram score, then look at the MB/s for the ram. A 1TB HDD will score much higher than an SSD on most of the results on this test.

paulpicks21 · 06 Dec 2012

It does seem to be a bit of a joke this test, it's obviously not using your Crossfire in the test Solar, and even then it should be scoring more for a single card.