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Hi everyone I live in Chile and I'm trying to decide between two laptops. One has an i5 7300HQ + GTX1050 and the other has an i7 6700HQ + GTX960M Everything else been equal, which one do you recommend?. The laptop will be used 50/50 between gaming and productivity. I appreciate you help and...

Currently, most of our models are small and they do not benefit much from GPU. Our priority is upgrading the PCs we currently have on the lab, which are outdated for today standards (Core 2 Duo E8400) and are really slow, even running the small benchmark I put in this forum. The GPU accelerates...

Thanks everyone for your help. Apparently the best price to performance ratio in this benchmark is offered by the i5 6600k, and the latest PC builds suggest that this CPU is a solid choice, however, as seen by the benchmarks, clock speeds are very important for OpenSees, so, I wonder: Is it...

Thanks everybody in the forum. Up to this point we have some very interesting possible conclusions? we can draw, so let's recap the data we have so far: i5 3570K at stock = 145s i5 4440 at stock = 141s i7 4790 at stock = 114s i5 3570K at 4.2GHz = 132s i5 2400S at stock = 175s i7 3720QM (Macbook...

I got an i7 3770 (non K) processor to run the benchmark and it scores 140s. Based on this result and the 145s of the i5 3570k, do you think there is some benefit of the Hyperthreading or maybe from the larger L3?

Short answer: if you can upgrade later your monitor, get the GTX 970, it will give you better performance in future games. Otherwise, get the GTX 960. Long Answer: it depends on your upgrading path. There is a substantial difference between the GTX 960 and the GTX 970 but both will have plenty...

I'll try to see if there is something wrong with the file. Did you install the ActiveTcl as administrator? I'll post the individual Pushinfo.tcl file tomorrow to see if there's something wrong with the one I uploaded. Thanks for your help

I've been looking for information about Skylake and in scientific benchmarks such as LinPack and Euler3D it shows important benefit of i6700k over i4790K and I wonder, is there some in the forum with a Skylake that could do the test I placed in the first post? Thanks in advance.

Hi. Get the 980Ti over 970SLI. Another suggestion: Instead of the Acer XB270HU, get the XB271HU, it's an IPS panel. If you have the money, try getting an SSD, that system deserves a fast drive. You don't need a large one, an 256GB or even 128GB would do, provided that you store big files and...

Thanks all of you for your help. I manage to perform some benchmarking by myself and some help from some friends and I have found there is a positive correlation between the PassMark and the OpenSees, though apparently, OpenSees shows a better scaling with frequency and possibly architecture...

Hi. I also uploaded the file there a couple of hours ago, I'm trying to get as much information as I can and in this forum people have better rigs than there. Research budgets are not as good these days. Thanks for the tip about Passmark BadActor. I will look at the dll missing file.

Hi. I am a researcher in Nonlinear Dynamic Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Buildings and my lab just received funding to upgrade our existing computers which are more than 5 years old. We work with a software called OpenSees is an Open Source software that can be really taxing for any system...