PassMark Software

Computer forensics, diagnostics and benchmarking.

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Introducing the USB-C 20G Loopback Plugs! Validate USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 ports with 20Gb/s testing performance. Compact, reliable, and built for production testing, diagnostics, and high-speed port verification. For more information or to order visit: https://t.co/J6p5W1EO9F

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@x86deadandback And it's gone.

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Version V11.7 of MemTest86 was released today.
With support for the LPCAMM2 RAM form factor, including detecting which chip is bad. Plus a bunch of other minor bug fixes and improvements.
https://t.co/v9Np57f0ys

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@lafaiel @x86deadandback Integer test result only contributes a small amount of the overall CPUmark score. It is interesting from a historical point of point, allowing comparison to old CPUs. Yes, this sub-test is synthetic, but the instruction mix was from real code. Integer maths is pretty common.

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@majornelson We can help you out.
DM me and I can send you sample of our USB-C speed tester with cable reporting function.
https://t.co/rTz0k2Ye5r

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@TheProfosist @vxunderground No, that was a separate problem. Had a DoS attack on web site over the week-end. Peaked at around 4000 requests a second (normal traffic is 100/s). Should be sorted out now.

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@shanselman @vxunderground Thanks.
Please DM me for Microsoft account details if required.

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@shanselman @vxunderground Scott we also got our account blocked without notice. This is for MemTest86 development, which Microsoft use internally for testing their Surface hardware. So if you do find the reason, we'd be very interested to know.

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@_HugsAndDrugs_ Had a DoS attack over the week-end. Peaked at around 4000 requests a second (normal traffic is 100/s). Should be sorted out now.

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@burretploof Had a DoS attack over the week-end. Peaked at around 4000 requests a second (normal traffic is 100/s). Should be sorted out now.

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There has been around 5 significant benchmark algorithms updates over the last 20 years. Including moving to 64bit, using AES hardware & adding SIMD to some of the sub-tests. Overall result is scaled across releases to allow a rough comparison. While there has been significant improvement in a few narrow areas (like AES encryption) overall single threaded general compute has processed only slowly.
This also (partially) explains why new computer don't feel dramatically faster and old computers don't feel slow, in general desktop usage.

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Introducing the USB-C Short Circuit Tester! Compact, practical, and delivers rapid testing of port voltages and short circuits— under 1 second per port — perfect for fast production line checks.
For more information or to order visit: https://t.co/VZQ7OXYw10

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@Olrak29_ With a sensible naming scheme there would a lot less need to visit review & benchmark sites. So we fully support this naming madness.
https://t.co/kcsb1cReS9

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Pulling apart USB Type-C cables today trying to work out why some models have errors at 20Gb and some don't. We suspect the (lack of) twist in the data lines near the termination give this one occasional errors.

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Windows 10 gains 1% market share back off Window 11
https://t.co/HYG9LjoMuO

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@exQUIZitely You might have heard of Defraging, but what about Fraging?

https://t.co/K1XH2sEGEZ

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Multi-threaded CPU. Currently the 356th Faster CPU available. But reasonable for it's power consumption.
https://t.co/wIZsH8geQm

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Early single threaded benchmarks for Intel's new mobile Panther Lake chips. X9 388H & X7 368H, etc..
https://t.co/ysO73jpaVv