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Has anyone noticed that a lot of the CPU benchmark scores on Passmark have changed significantly. For the past few years the i7-4790k (almost 6 year old CPU) has always had a score around 11,000 and for some reason this week it has dropped to around 8600 as of March 5th, 2020. That's a 22% difference compared to the scores that have stayed the same for almost 6 years, I took a screenshot from Wayback Machine in December 2019 to show the difference. This is kind of frustrating because I use this a lot when comparing CPU's in my customer's PC's with newer ones to rule out whether or not it's worth upgrading older hardware. Any thoughts on this? Does anyone know if Passmark has changed their benchmarking algorithm lately that might be affecting this? I also did notice there seems to be a much higher score difference (22%) with 4th gen and older Intel CPU's, and only a 4%-15% difference with newer gen intel and AMD CPU scores. Current score (March 5th, 2020): https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4790K+%40+4.00GHz&id=2275 Wayback Machine capture from December 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20191212215318/https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4790K+%40+4.00GHz&id=2275

We recently designed some adapters that allow you to connect the standard front panel I/O to the proprietary headers on some Dell Optiplex boards. Check it out here: https://github.com/HarbinRepairs/Dell-Optiplex-MB-Header-Adapters

There's a lot of guides on how to built decent gaming PC's using decommissioned Dell office PC's, but most of them reuse the ugly stock case instead of a standard modern PC case. We've been working on an adapter kit that's finally available that allows you to connect the front panel I/O to the proprietary front panel header on some of the Dell Optiplex motherboards (390, 3010, & 3020 currently). The 5/6 pin power button header adapter will work with most Dell Optiplex, Inspiron, and Vostro desktop motherboards with the 5/6 pin power button header but it alone won't remove the annoying front panel error. This project was designed for the mid tower (not SFF or small form factor) desktops. It allows you to connect standard PC case front panel headers to the Dell Optiplex 390, 3010, and 3020 motherboards (790, 7010, & 7020 models are currently not compatible since they use a different connector, however the power button header is the same). You can get these desktops for around $100 or less with 8GB of RAM and an i5-4590/4570 on eBay, just add an SSD, GPU, and PSU and you're all set. WARNING! Connecting these adapters in the wrong orientation or with the wrong models could result in damage to your motherboard. Do not use these adapters with models other than the ones mentioned above except for the power button adapter. By the way, everything is open source so you can get schematics and more info on my Github here: https://github.com/HarbinRepairs/Dell-Optiplex-MB-Header-Adapters Thanks for checking out this project!