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TheEternalPessimist
Wibble
+412|6898|Mhz

Lucien wrote:

20 seconds on a 4300 clocked at 3GHZ

pretty slow, no?
I get 14-15 secs on my e6600 @3.2 so I'd say it's a little slower than I'd expect but certainly not bad.
Scratch[USA]
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+105|6826
What exactly does super pi measure.  CPU speed alone or CPU & Memory speed?
Microwave
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+515|6933|Loughborough Uni / Leeds, UK

Scratch[USA] wrote:

What exactly does super pi measure.  CPU speed alone or CPU & Memory speed?
Raw processing power.
ghettoperson
Member
+1,943|6928

Lucien wrote:

20 seconds on a 4300 clocked at 3GHZ

pretty slow, no?
It's alright, but a little slower than I'd expect. Anyone know if RAM timings affect the scores? If so you could just have worse RAM than everyone else.
Freezer7Pro
I don't come here a lot anymore.
+1,447|6476|Winland

ghettoperson wrote:

Lucien wrote:

20 seconds on a 4300 clocked at 3GHZ

pretty slow, no?
It's alright, but a little slower than I'd expect. Anyone know if RAM timings affect the scores? If so you could just have worse RAM than everyone else.
RAM timings are overrated. They won't affect performance much at all. A higher clock speed is always (Well, in 95% of cases) better than lower timings.

Also note that if you do anything, and I mean anything, whiles running SuperPI, it's gonna affect the results a lot. Running (Not starting) Firefox steals 1-2 secs off my main rig.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
mikkel
Member
+383|6880

FloppY_ wrote:

I don't get it ?
It boils down to that old computers are slow. Groundbreaking research.
Ben0
The Last Gunslinger
+38|6653|Southampton

mikkel wrote:

FloppY_ wrote:

I don't get it ?
It boils down to that old computers are slow. Groundbreaking research.
This person tells the truth.
max
Vela Incident
+1,652|6846|NYC / Hamburg

Freezer7Pro wrote:

ghettoperson wrote:

Lucien wrote:

20 seconds on a 4300 clocked at 3GHZ

pretty slow, no?
It's alright, but a little slower than I'd expect. Anyone know if RAM timings affect the scores? If so you could just have worse RAM than everyone else.
RAM timings are overrated. They won't affect performance much at all. A higher clock speed is always (Well, in 95% of cases) better than lower timings.

Also note that if you do anything, and I mean anything, whiles running SuperPI, it's gonna affect the results a lot. Running (Not starting) Firefox steals 1-2 secs off my main rig.
running safe mode with explorer.exe killed and forced to 1 core with realtime priority is about 2-3s faster than in normal windows. Changing the ram speed/timings doesn't really affect the results at all. Neither does increasing the FSB/decreasing the multi
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Freezer7Pro
I don't come here a lot anymore.
+1,447|6476|Winland

max wrote:

Freezer7Pro wrote:

ghettoperson wrote:


It's alright, but a little slower than I'd expect. Anyone know if RAM timings affect the scores? If so you could just have worse RAM than everyone else.
RAM timings are overrated. They won't affect performance much at all. A higher clock speed is always (Well, in 95% of cases) better than lower timings.

Also note that if you do anything, and I mean anything, whiles running SuperPI, it's gonna affect the results a lot. Running (Not starting) Firefox steals 1-2 secs off my main rig.
running safe mode with explorer.exe killed and forced to 1 core with realtime priority is about 2-3s faster than in normal windows. Changing the ram speed/timings doesn't really affect the results at all. Neither does increasing the FSB/decreasing the multi
But increasing FSB and leaving multi does
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
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