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Hi guys,
We have had to do some testing on a bunch of Inventor PC's recently to determine which of the PC's needs to be replaced. Obviously we needed to find out which of the PC's are the worst eprformers as there was only budget to replace 50% of the design PC's. So we thought the Darwin theory will come in handy right... 🙂
Anyways I started searching on the net for toppics on how to benchmark an Inventor PC. Then I thought whats the point of using gaming benchmark tools because Inventor is not a game and there are more aspects than just graphics performance when it comes to percieved performance on an Inventor PC right.
So we decided to create our own Inventor benchmark tool which tests various aspects of an Inventor PC to give us an overview of our PC's performance. This then helped us make a decision as to whcih pc's to replace.
We have made the tool available free of charge to anyone interested in checking how their PC stacks up to their peers or friends. 🙂
Please download it here and post your results here as well if you want. Would be interesting to see what beast workstations are out there.
I would like to say thanks to Kirk #karthur1, for helping in testing the app.
Please feel free to send any suggestions our way. There is an email link in the app.
The application will work with Inventor 2014 to 2016 only.
IMPORTANT: After installation there will be an Inventor Bench icon on your desktop that looks like this:
My resluts:
HP Elitebook 8560w with an SSD upgrade.
@Anonymous I did and it brought my HHD test speed down to about 6.5...still not as good as my first several tests at home but better.
I also loaded the application options from another computer here at work and the results were much worse.
My application options (on top) vs coworker's application options
Hi @mmaes
Ok, you sort of answered your own question. What settings can you make to get your Inventor performing faster again? …take it off your work network and point Inventor to your local drive for Design Data, Templates, and Content Center files. 
Remember this tool is to test your Inventor's performance, on your PC's current setup, in a real-world scenario. It is supposed to highlight issues like we have seen with some of the results and that's great because that gives us the info to make better decisions as we can compare it with our peer's results.
So yes, with some of the shared resources located on a server drive, your Inventor will have slower performance but that's sort of expected. At the end of the day the result you get (IPI) is an indication of how well Inventor runs with the current configuration.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
My testing has also shown that the HDD scores aren't an exclusive reflection on the type of HDD that you have. I recently tested a Precision workstation with a PCIe SSD with a real world tested read speed of 2.5GB/s and write of 1.5GB/s, but the save time in the Inventor Bench tool was over double the time it took to save the file on my home PC SSD which has a real world tested read speed of 550MB/s and write of around 500MB/s. My SSD saved the file under 6 seconds, the drive which can write data 3 times faster took double the time to save the file.
I haven't researched yet what would be causing this but you could look towards the CPU being required to complete the calculations of a save operation, then as mentioned above all the network based resources could be a factor.
@Anonymous If the stress test is showing the CPU peaking at 4.2GHz then your system builder hasn't overclocked it, 4.2GHz is the stock overclock/turbo on the CPU. If you can figure out the MSI software and get it to OC up to your desired level, you should be up there at 11-12 point scores.
I love this thread, it's nerd heaven.
I've got a nerdy project planned for the next couple of weeks once I get home from Oz. I'm gonna buy the parts to build a PC as cheap as possible, possibly around the £400 / $400 price point, and see if I can beat the score/outperform a £5500 proper workstation. I've genuinely got no idea if it'll actually work out but I've got the parts picked ready to order.
I'm never expecting this to out perform the likes of my own desktop or the other guys with Skylakes, it's more of a thing for my YouTube channel to show how you can spend next to nothing and still be alright, as long as you pick the right parts across the whole system.
sorry @Anonymous, I have mislead you. You CAN use the Command Center to overclock, but I was thinking of the wrong program. In the link I provided in an earlier post, about half way down the page, there's an Intel Extreme Tuning Utility. Please download and install that.
Then, go to the Advanced Tuning section, and you'll be looking for the Core. Then, you can adjust the multipliers as shown below:
You can slowly up the multiplier to get the desired speed.
Please note, this is basic overclocking with software. Some like it, others will go through the BIOS.
Have you researched overclocking? If not, I suggest reading up on a few sites to get a basic grasp. I will help as much as I can.
Disclaimer: Info only, please do this at your own risk. I feel I need to add this.
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