intel burn test results.

hey guys i ran the intel burntest on my laptop and i got this: could someone tell me what the numbers in the result section mean? i tried googling it and i couldnt find anything. Thanks!

Time (s) Speed (GFlops) Result
498.906 100.0865 3.190490e-002

 

Well, I’d hope you know what Time means

The Result is simply the number that it calculated. I wouldn’t pay much attention to it unless it was the wrong answer, but that’s rare.

The interesting result to pay attention to is the GFlops, which is the number of floating-point calculations performed per second (1 GFlops = 10^9 Flops). In summary, the higher the number the better, though for a more detailed read, you can check out Wikipedia’s article on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS

And if you want to read more about the test itself: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LINPACK

 

LOOL yess I got the time thing down hahaha, I was just wondering about the results section because, I was using this program to test my undervolt profiles and it dropped to 2.xxxxx at some point that’s why I was curious... I didn’t want it to effect my performance or anything, so I bumped it back up a bit to be at least in the 3.xxxx with out the temps going back up.. does the undervolting effect performance in anyway? And can running the Intel burn test damage the system in anyway? Thanks for the reply!!

 

It can potentially damage the system, so I’d be careful using it if you’re going to use it at all.

And yes, undervolting can reduce performance (though you can gain battery life benefits), just as overclocking can increase performance (at the cost of battery life).

 

Oh wow ok... I mean I only ran the test for maybe about an hour in total and as for the performance decrease, is it only to a certain point? Or as soon as you undervolt there’s a performance drop? So far all the stuff I’ve read says performance shouldn’t be effected... unless I’m doing something wrong??

 

Depends on what tasks you’re doing. Simple stuff like web browsing or looking at text files hardly user the CPU at all, so it wouldn’t matter what you do to the CPU in those cases. On the other hand, if you’re playing a CPU-intensive game, the performance could be hindered by an undervolt. You have to look at computer performance in context of what you plan on doing and what hardware those tasks need in order to perform well. There’s no blanket number of “computer performance”, for example Intel’s Burn Test only measures CPU floating-point performance and not CPU integer performance, encryption performance, GPU performance, RAM performance, HDD/SSD performance, etc. it only tells you how well the CPU can perform a certain set of mathematical operations.

 

Wow ok great!! That’s excellent to know, thanks for the incredible detail! Is there a better benchmark program that I could use that tests all the aspects of the cpus performance? So that I can have a good undervolt while maintaining the best performance possible?

 

There are various benchmark software out there for all sorts of tests you might want to run (not just CPU performance).

However, personally I like to test the performance of the actual applications themselves rather than use syncthetic benchmarks when I do any tuning to my computers. For example, if I’m trying to make Game XYZ perform better, I’d test by seeing the performance of Game XYZ (relative to whatever game settings I set, such as resolution, AA, etc) rather than try to use something like IBT (assuming I’m changing CPU performance).

As I mentioned before, IBT (really LinPack) only measures floating-point calculation performance in a CPU. If the software you use makes use of little to no floating-point calculations, IBT would be a pointless test to consider.

 

That makes sense, alright thanks a lot man, unfortunately the only game I can play on my pc that has decent minimum requirements at the moment is fortnite -_- I’m brok atm and can’t affort to pick up anything recent so far I haven’t noticed a decrease In performance/FPS in the game so far since my undervolt so I’ll keep on running tests with that and see. Thank you!!

 

Don’t worry too much about not having money for other games. No point in optimizing a setup for something you don’t actually use it for, right?

 

Yeah exactly your right! I just wanna Make sure all is good I’m just paranoid lool