Terrible Geekbench 3 results should I replace my i7-860 processor?
My aged but serviceable iMac is running slow. I installed an ssd recently (clean install of Yosemite) hoping to improve things... (it worked so well on my old MBP).
I recently installed Geekbench 3 and my scores are about half of other people's iMacs of identical spec.
The numbers are particularly bad in integer and floating point results.
Wondering if there's anything I can do?
Could I buy a new i7-860 processor like this one: http://www.cpumedics.com/bx80605i7860.ht...
would that solve the problem do you think?
Could it be anything else?
Ram?
Whatever?
Hopefully it's not software - very recent clean install of Yosemite on an SSD should be OK, right?
I would very much prefer to pay in the order of USD150 rather than shelling for a new mac!
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Can you give us the specs of your SSD. It's possible it's not the correct unit for your system
- de Dan
It's a 1TB Samsung 850 EVO.
I put an 1TB 840 in my MBP and it has become a most useful machine again. Snappy, quick to load apps. Especially great in parallels because I can only put 8GB in that MBP)
Also in the iMac is a 4TB WDC WD4003FZEX-00Z4SA0
I use the 4TB drive to store documents, and the SSD for system and applications.
The SSD is in place of the DVD using iFixit's drive caddy.
and the 4TB is in the place of the old system drive.
Pretty sure math functions are handled by the i7-860, right? there's no math co-processor like in the old days is there?
Geek bench does not seem to benchmark the drive performance. Perhaps I should try to do that to put aside the SSD as being part of the problem?
- de mark
No there is no co-processor thats back in 386 time ;-}
- de Dan
I used bk mc to test the drives. The SSD in the iMac (253MB/s Write, 267MB/s Read) works at almost the same speed as the one in my MBP. The 4TB conventional hard drive is a bit slower, but not bad (143MB/s Write, 142MB/s Read).
I think the drives are OK. my understanding is geek bench does not really test drives anyway. It is the woeful geek bench scores I wonder if I can fix somehow? I get scores near half of what others have uploaded on very similar iMacs.
- de mark
sorry for the delay, but iFixit's spam detector is a bit over zealous about the words b1ack mag1c (popular drive benchmark software and apparently something else too?)
- de mark
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