Cinebench 2026

Nope just play around with computers. Build them test them and sell them. 225 is on a B860 MB so no overclocking. Only ram OC. I've found the best performance at 7200c34 the way I have it right now.

I mainly built these 3 systems to test out how "bad" the intel CPUs were (225 and 285k) vs the 9800x3d. And yes with a 5090 i could tell differences and poverty spec resolutions. Higher resolution 1440p and above. Not so much, and with a lower end gpu like a 5060ti not much difference at all.
 
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Tyler-98-W68 said:
Nope just play around with computers. Build them test them and sell them.
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****, I really envy you. I could never build a PC and get it to sell at higher than my cost price. I just have a bad curse that prevents me from being a business person.

I've so far sold a brand new Zotac 3060 Ti for only a $12 profit.
Opened but unused 3060 Ti FE and PNY 3080 10GB traded for a sparingly used M1 Macbook Air and $92 in cash so a significant loss (I was disgusted with their low VRAM capacity).
Pretty frequently used Gigabyte AORUS 6800 XT for again about $12 profit. The LED display on it helped sell it to a kid.

I'm stuck with an unopened ASUS LC 6800 XT. Stupid neanderthals want it for $300 or less while my cost price was over $600.

Also stuck with a 12700K and ASROCK Sonic mobo that no one wants to pay decent money for.
 
Oh I generally don't make a profit, did on my 5090 but that's not a normal thing. It's a hobby if I lose some money no big deal, but given the ram prices now im sure I could make a bit. My 9800x3d system I've got for sale, but it's complete in a case sans gpu, so likely only a local sale, as shipping large things like that is a pain in the ***
 
Just for fun I thought I would run R26 while playing one of my favorite games (and benchmark it a bunch)

Going from 10400 down to 6500 is a big drop, but I was able to play my game with a ton of vehicles spawned no problem.
(fps is at 30 since the window was out of focus, it was around 80fps)
285K rtx 5060ti West coast and R26 running .png
 
That's a valid use case. Not everyone wants to leave and do something else while the rendering job completes. And it's definitely cheaper than having to do it on a dedicated gaming rig.
 

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Clever thing that guy did to bypass AVX2 requirement. Just run it under MacOS!
 
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Aspire 14 226V Cinebench R26 SGL mult .png

Ooof the slowest result I've got so far.

Aspire 14 AI

Core Ultra 5 226V
16GB LPDDR5x 8533
Arc 130V
 
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Ooof the slowest result I've got so far.
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That RAM must have terrible latency to slow down that CPU so much. Only 5.34X multicore scaling. Maybe it's possible to improve the LPDDR5x latency by turning off all power optimization related settings in BIOS. 7-Max could also help improve that score a bit.
 
Why do you think its the ram?

226V system

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9800X3D system
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Passmark results, not a super fair comparison, but the 226v has lower memory latency
 
Yeah. Passmark latency isn't proper.

Use AIDA64 or
MaxxMem2 or
My very own RAM latency tool in my sig. It has the benefit of being OS agnostic as it measured the same RAM latency in Win11 and Win2025 Server. It is "as real world as it gets". It allocates 500MB of buffer RAM and continuously accesses it and updates the average and instant latency in the background. When you press any of the two buttons, it reports the most recent calculated latency.
 
So what score should a low power Lunar lake CPU get with a PL1 limit of 30w be getting if it's such a bad score?
 
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So what score should a low power Lunar lake CPU get with a PL1 limit of 30w be getting if it's such a bad score?
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That's a good point. With only 30W, the poor cores aren't getting the power they need to perform. Maybe there's an option in BIOS to unlock more perf with increased power limit?
 
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Clever thing that guy did to bypass AVX2 requirement. Just run it under MacOS!
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My goal was both to get a score for Nehalem (well ok, gulftown), and compare macos and windows. I have not been able to run it under windows. No message, just no start. Intel SDE did not help. So either tiny11 is missing some required stuff, or there's a problem in cb26 when running windows on a mac pro 5,1.
 
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So either tiny11 is missing some required stuff, or there's a problem in cb26 when running windows on a mac pro 5,1.
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Most likely the Windows executable has been compiled with a hard minimum AVX2 requirement. That same requirement was dropped for whatever reason when they compiled the MacOS binary.

Did you try sde with set cpuid for Haswell?
 
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