After seeing the POST about configuring Vista to look like XP, I got my inspiration. I decided that it would be very interesting to run a non biased benchmark test, on each OS. I like each OS for different reasons, and I really doesn’t matter to me who wins, I just thought it would be something fun to test out.
The OS’s that are going to be ran are Vista sp1, VXP sp1, XP sp1, and XP sp3. The benchmark software that will be ran is Passmark. I have used their software before, and it seems solid and stable. If I finish with time left over I want to throw a couple Linux Distro’s in also, just for sh**’s and giggles. Ubuntu 8.10 and PCL2008…
The test is going to be ran on the same PC, and the exact same hardware. I will not run the benchmark until all the drivers are properly installed and the proper updates are installed. After each OS is updated I will run one defrag, reboot and thats it. Then I will run the Benchmark.
System Specifications: Duel socket Xeon’s (32bit, 3.06 Ghz, hyper threading enabled), 3.2 GB of OCZ RAM (Clocked at 2-3-2-5 @ 2.8V), AGP ATI 3850 Graphics card, 1 36 GB raptor drive.
I Plan on completing all the installs and tests over the weekend and they should be ready on Monday.
I am leaning towards VXP. So who do you think will win the benchmark test?
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I wanted to get the results posted sooner than this… but work has been keeping me a little to busy. Also, at the current time I was unable to get the results of Ubuntu and PCLOS08… They don’t seem to like my graphics card, so its going to take a little more work than I expected. So here are the results.
VXP SP1 – 587.4
Vista SP1 – 565.2
XP SP3 – 572.3
XP SP1 – 428.9
I thought for sure that XP SP3 was going to stomp Vista SP1… but who knew it would be so close…
