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To: nicewatch who wrote (528)	2/27/2017 10:42:51 PM
From: goldworldnet	2 Recommendations Recommended By nicewatch Vendit™ Respond to of 1380

Looking very Good! I'm starting to understand the PassMark scores a little better. In reality, the percentiles shown are probably lower than a true world representation, because PassMark is using the test results from their database and people benchmarking their computers also probably have above average computers. Something else is that if your computer is able to complete the 3D graphics testing, it will score significantly higher than the 2D testing score. This is because computers that can't complete the 3D test are heavily penalized on that score. These are my two PassMark scores in two posts showing results for my onboard graphics & my aftermarket graphics card, that respond to your previous PassMark scores before upgrading to 64GB memory. siliconinvestor.com Josh * * *

To: nicewatch who wrote (528)	3/14/2017 2:08:05 AM
From: nicewatch	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1380

An addendum to my last posted novabench test: that was done soon after startup of pc and under the crispest of conditions. I got a few 1980s and didn't take screenshot but considered them flukes. I've hit 1970 many times on a crisp benchmark. The addendum is that doing the same benchmark after the z420 had a heavy day of multiwindow, multitab browsers and spreadsheets, plus leaving pc on for 24-48 hours without sleep mode for ssd, just screen sleep after an hour... well, the real world results are interesting. The top notch 1970 score dips into the 1880s-1890s and sometimes the 1910s-1920s after a heavy day's work. Unfortunately don't have screenshots to share but will in the future. Not bad for a 5 year old chip and motherboard! Ha! Have yet to figure the true max cpu potential of this motherboard. The Xeon it came with seems good enough for single cpu for now. If I could get a dual cpu workstation deal though. ;-)