price/performance Price Per Potato School Program Data Needed!

[BrianW]

Hey LTT Forums! Me and a friend of mine are collecting hardware data from computers to help us illustrate a price/performance relationship for a programming project in college. We will use this information to see what really matters in a computer's performance and what doesn't really matter. We are creating a java application that will calculate your ideal price/performance and your actual P/P. We created a survey to help get this info. Please be honest and as accurate of you can. You only need to provide 4 things, Valley, Firestrike, Cinebench scores, and total price of relevant hardware. All information is anonymous and is for educational purposes only! Thanks everyone! 

 

The survey! 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1dD1JRCfa1Jq9dzBH9YIRMMtuFtMt9WYSfHvFBMpCYfk/edit?usp=drive_web

 

- Brian W + Erik C

[alexhelvetica]

Would a Pentium 4 2.4B, Radeon 9550 and 2GB of Ram help? That is the only computer I have access to today.

[Moonzy]

check my signature for firestrike and price (pc part picker)

cinebench score = 575 with my i5 6600

dont have valley installed sorry

 

things like this isnt easy to create, there are too many variables tbh

ram CL, ram speed, throttling, different things excel at different workloads
so its best to just ask experienced people to build the best rig suited for your needs lol

[BrianW]

22 minutes ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

Would a Pentium 4 2.4B, Radeon 9550 and 2GB of Ram help? That is the only computer I have access to today.

Yes of course the more data the better!

[alexhelvetica]

Just now, BrianW said:

Yes of course the more data the better!

How do I work out the price. It is a GPU and CPU from 2004, do I give the price of what it costed new, or my approximation of $50 for the whole PC.

[BrianW]

22 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

check my signature for firestrike and price (pc part picker)

cinebench score = 575 with my i5 6600

dont have valley installed sorry

 

things like this isnt easy to create, there are too many variables tbh

ram CL, ram speed, throttling, different things excel at different workloads
so its best to just ask experienced people to build the best rig suited for your needs lol

Thanks for your input! Between me and friends we only have a few computers. With more data we can create a plot of P/P. If we get the general equation of that plot we can hopefully predict the average P/P at that price range or at a given performance scores! This is why we need TONS of data. 

[BrianW]

47 minutes ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

How do I work out the price. It is a GPU and CPU from 2004, do I give the price of what it costed new, or my approximation of $50 for the whole PC.

It is what it costed YOU to get it. New or used. If you got it for a great price, your price to performance would be very high! Thanks for asking. I will change the survey to specify. 

[mikat]

i can do my personal rig, maybe my moms computer (i built it a few weeks ago), a server that i have on hand (runs VMware ESXi 6 with dual xeons and no GPU so only cinebench lol)

that dual xeon server didn't cost anything so the price per performance is infinite

[BrianW]

44 minutes ago, mikat said:

i can do my personal rig, maybe my moms computer (i built it a few weeks ago), a server that i have on hand (runs VMware ESXi 6 with dual xeons and no GPU so only cinebench lol)

that dual xeon server didn't cost anything so the price per performance is infinite

Thank you very much! I know it takes a while to benchmark all this stuff. Me and my friend will post the program when it is done so you guys can see what you contributed to! 

 

Wow, I'm excited to see that cinebench score. 

[BrianW]

I just updated the survey. (was on phone and accidentally deleted half of it, had to jump on computer to redo it... )  I added another question. If you already took it, no need to take it again. Thanks in advance 

[alexhelvetica]

I either have a score of infinite or a score of zero. Failed all 3 stress tests for various reasons, but the PC didn't cost me anything. 

[mikat]

15 minutes ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

I either have a score of infinite or a score of zero. Failed all 3 stress tests for various reasons, but the PC didn't cost me anything. 

0/0=0,1 or infinite

 

0/0=0 because 0 divided by anything is 0

0/0=1 because a number divided by itself is always 1

0/0= infinite because if you divide by 0 you get infinity (some say it's not possible but i believe in infinity)

[BrianW]

11 minutes ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

I either have a score of infinite or a score of zero. Failed all 3 stress tests for various reasons, but the PC didn't cost me anything. 

Hmm does it make it through any presets of valley? How about hyper pi (8million digits), and 3d mark sky diver? Does it survive any of those. 

 

Can't beat it if it's free! 

 

I like your system description "Ghetto PC". I call it that too. I once had to run my case with no air flow. So my SLI overheated. I taped a fan right to the top of gpu and blew air between them. Ghetto cooling solution are great. 

Edited April 10, 2016 by BrianW

[alexhelvetica]

38 minutes ago, mikat said:

0/0=0,1 or infinite

I gave an approximation of the computers value when I got it (~$50) and the case cost me $45AUD (~$34).

0*0*0/50=0 (Approximated component value of February this year) 

0*0*0/(50+34)=0 (Aprox value + Case)

0*0*0/0= Not defined (Cost to me of the Components)

29 minutes ago, BrianW said:

Hmm does it make it through any presets of valley? How about hyper pi (8million digits), and 3d mark sky diver? Does it survive any of those. 

 

Can't beat it if it's free! 

Valley opens but when the test is about to start, it just shows a blank screen then crashes.

I cannot download 3D Mark, it will take 12 hours and I will not be here to test it them.

I can run Cinebench R11 (CPU test) or 2003 (Both). R15 require a 64bit install of Windows.

 

HyperPi I got 1m 4.98s.with 1M digits (OC disabled)

HyperPi I got 11m 47.92s.with 8M digits (OC disabled)

 

I think potato PC is a red herring.