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hey guys LP here from technobuffalo and today we're putting windows 7 to some benchmarks and comparing it to its predecessors windows vista and windows XP in my previous videos we checked out some of the basic features as well as some of the more advanced features of Windows 7 but in this video it's all about performance we're going to start off with some synthetic benchmarks and finish off with a comparison of Windows Vista and Windows 7 running a very cool game called Batman Arkham Asylum super pie is a very popular benchmark software that tells how fast your processor calculate spy to a predetermined number digits it's basically a pretty straightforward benchmark tool that tells how fast your CPU crunches the numbers it's a very simple piece of software but it's a very cool benchmark tool even my wife got excited when I showed her this okay she wasn't too excited but in my benchmark I'll be using a 1 million digit test and here we go pretty exciting stuff I won't be using the current score in the comparison because the recording software I'm using is taking up a significant amount of resources so I took the liberty and ran the benchmark without the recording software running in the background on the three operating systems and here are the results okay the time it took windows XP to calculate 1 million digits of pi occurred in 15.69 eight seconds vista crunched the numbers in 15.9 89 seconds and windows seven in 15.9 33 seconds not very significant variations between the three but still windows XP was the fastest by a third of a second windows 7 comes in second and Vista third in the next benchmark I tested hard drive read speed with HD tune which calculates the minimum maximum and average read speeds and random access time of your hard drives the test itself takes a few minutes so I'm going to skip forward in time for your viewing pleasure okay the tests are now complete and for this HD tune benchmark I assess the read speeds of western digital caviar black hard drives which are running in a raid 0 configuration so they will be getting of higher average read speed than off the single hard drive as you can see the average read speed on Windows XP is excellent but the process usage on Windows XP is significantly higher than on Windows Vista or Windows 7 the HD tune test revealed some pretty similar results not very significant differences but the test revealed that using the hard drive on Windows Vista had a slightly slower random access time and burst rate which might translate into some less responsive use compared to windows 7 but yet again not very overwhelming differences between the three operating systems in the next benchmark I tested the system memory speed with lava lyst Everest the Everest memory benchmark calculates the read write and copy speed of your memory and also times the latency and as you can see from the bottom of the benchmark screen I'm running some pre standard ram ddr2 running in dual channel clocked at 907 megahertz pretty much mid-range in today's standards the memory benchmark revealed the windows vista and windows seven can both handle ram a bit faster than the good old windows XP cat vista is about 50 megabytes faster and read speed and 80 megabytes faster in right speed compared to windows XP and it's nice to see the windows 7 is even faster than vista even though the differences are pretty much incremental in the next test I use future marks very popular gaming benchmark 3dmark Vantage the benchmark features various kind of 3d graphics and physics tests that really push your graphics card and your CPU to the max for the benchmark I used to August 209 catalyst drivers so the playing field between vista and windows seven should be quite equal and the results are as such windows 7 came out with a score that is about 200 points more than on Windows Vista although the scores in the CPU tests were about equal advantage windows 7 scored better in the GPU tests again not a massive victory for windows seven but a 200-point gaining 3dmark Vantage is definitely welcome in my books so if your pc guy like me you probably run the occasional benchmark to see how fast your system set a biz i'm curious to what kind of scores you guys are getting for example in vantage and super pie so if you want you can post your system specs and your scores in the comments alrighty the last benchmark of the day is a real world gaming benchmark using batman arkham asylum and for this I use the benchmark tool in craps which is one of the best application for checking out just how fast games run on your PC all this benchmark probably isn't time typically accurate because I could not play through the same sequence in the exact same way but it still gives a pretty good picture of gaming speed on windows 7 compared to windows vista i use the catalyst 9.8 drivers on both Vista and Windows 7 and as you can see the scores are quite similar the game does run a couple of frames faster on Windows 7 but the difference is definitely negligible and you won't notice the difference while playing the game so if you're expecting games to be running a lot faster on windows 7 you will be a bit disappointed but the truth is that if you want games to run faster on your PC there are no magic tricks you're going to have to upgrade your hardware and this is one of the reasons why pc gaming is considered a dying breed at least by some the high-end gaming graphics cards will cost you around 500 bucks which is a bit much when game console prices have come down to almost half of that I recently played through Arkham Asylum on the ps3 and I was surprised to see how well it compared to the pc version in graphics of course the frame rate and resolution weren't up to the pc version but this game looks great on all flat jones busy these poor I have to say it was one of the best games i play in recent times it's a nice mix between god of war and metal gear solid to sum up this benchmark video I was a bit surprised to see that Windows Vista held up against windows 7 as well as it did in my benchmarks even though it did score lower against windows 7 in pretty much all the benchmarks the difference is really were not anything to throw a party over so if you're looking to upgrade to Windows 7 it pretty much comes down to functionality and features so what do you guys think I have shown you the features and ran the test is windows seven something you're looking forward to I have personally been pleased with the beta but the price is still a bit of a punch in the face and actually a sucker punch for us beta testers but that's about it for this video catch you later LP from TechnoBuffalo signing out