Very slow superpi

[TurboGLH]

I'm not sure where my issue lay's at this point. Getting incredibly slow superpi 32m (38min). Screen shot with superpi, cpuz, and a64 tweaker is linked. Finally upgraded from my old 1800, served me well at 2.4 for years, and this is my first a64 system so I'm not familiar with a64 at all. If anyone has any recomendations they would be appreciated.

System
Opty 144 CAB2E 0540 FPMW @ 2.835 (315htt)
msi k8n neo2 plat 1.c sideeffect bios
1gig pc3200 hyperx

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/TurboGLH/slowsuperpi.jpg

[Shinuza]

What about 1M?

Maybe coming from a slow HDD writing

[G H Z]

Your on 2000, enabling large system cache is pretty important for that OS in PI. Your memory is also running very slow. Setup your divider to max your memory speed @ overall CPU Mhz.

[TurboGLH]

1m is 33.015 sec. I enabled large system cache, and will rerun. I'm limited in what I can do with the mem, it will post and boot into windows using the 150 (3:4) selection, as opposed to the 133 I'm using now, but in order to make the system stable I have to loosen the timings to 3:4:4:7. Unfortunately using the 166 divider will not even allow the system to post. Will rerun and repost in......hopefully less than 30min, but more likely closer to 40.

[M.Beier]

Try'n high priority or real time, and watch TV, I'll bet it brings your time down to ALOT lower, more like.. 27-30 min..

[TurboGLH]

Well, less than 30min later all is good. Enabled large system cache, rebooted and went from 38min to 27min, still more to go but much better for now.

edit: I noticed I forgot to bump the htt back up when I reran the test, so I dropped 11min at a lower clock speed.

[Vapor]

Due to the inconsistant times between iterations I'd bet you were USING your PC while it was doing this. If you're gonna do that, set SPI to realtime (gl using your PC though :lol: ).

EDIT: nvm

[Shinuza]

1m is 33.015 sec. I enabled large system cache, and will rerun. I'm limited in what I can do with the mem, it will post and boot into windows using the 150 (3:4) selection, as opposed to the 133 I'm using now, but in order to make the system stable I have to loosen the timings to 3:4:4:7. Unfortunately using the 166 divider will not even allow the system to post. Will rerun and repost in......hopefully less than 30min, but more likely closer to 40.

I do 32 with winnie @ 2.6ghz, there's truly a problem.

[TurboGLH]

Due to the inconsistant times between iterations I'd bet you were USING your PC while it was doing this. If you're gonna do that, set SPI to realtime (gl using your PC though :lol: ).

EDIT: nvm

haha, no I wasn't using the system at all. This my be my first a64 setup, but not my first comp and I haven't been enough of a noob to try and bench while USING my system since about....1995?

edit: I see you were posting at the same time I was, so nvm.

[TurboGLH]

I went back and upped the divider, loosened the timings and bumped the htt up to 322 (using clock gen, won't post past 318 in the bios) and got 32m down to 26m 6.422s, and 1m to 29.610s not world records by any shot but much better than before. Thanks for all the help/suggestions.