Tony
04-12-2005, 03:13 AM
I often read the comments section on Anandtech as there is always constuctive criticism to found about reviews etc.while there i noticed something pretty interesting about super pi.
Now a while back i helped a reviewer who wanted to measure USB2 and firewire thruput from an external HDD over a motherboard controller. We came up with a ram drive to read and write to from the external drive....it worked real well.
Now here is the thing, a poster on the comments section suggested super pi actually reads and writes to the HDD and so incures a speed penalty as you have the speed of the HDD to consider.This is just the same as my USB2 benchmark and the reason why we worked on a ram drive.
So, i put theory to test on my workstation, testing to the normal C drive and to Z which is a BH5 1gig ram drive....using Z super pi ran almost 2secs quicker on a 2M test.
So, if you have the means, create a 200MB ramdrive, load superpi onto it and have a play..i think you may end up breaking a few more records here.Please note though you will have to make sure the ram is 100% stable as it will be acting as a physical drive.
hope this helps
Tony
Now a while back i helped a reviewer who wanted to measure USB2 and firewire thruput from an external HDD over a motherboard controller. We came up with a ram drive to read and write to from the external drive....it worked real well.
Now here is the thing, a poster on the comments section suggested super pi actually reads and writes to the HDD and so incures a speed penalty as you have the speed of the HDD to consider.This is just the same as my USB2 benchmark and the reason why we worked on a ram drive.
So, i put theory to test on my workstation, testing to the normal C drive and to Z which is a BH5 1gig ram drive....using Z super pi ran almost 2secs quicker on a 2M test.
So, if you have the means, create a 200MB ramdrive, load superpi onto it and have a play..i think you may end up breaking a few more records here.Please note though you will have to make sure the ram is 100% stable as it will be acting as a physical drive.
hope this helps
Tony