32m SPi Low Clock Challenge

[ToyTen]

Wow Toyten, you are on a roll mister
Crazy fast run !
But you don't play fair, you have some nice piece of memory as your faithfull assistant What brand are they ? How much Vdimm ?

Thank you George_o/c

I have Cell Shock 12800 7-6-6-18-1T. I used 2.26vDDR which I think is not few

[George_o/c]

2.26Vdimm is a lot yeah ! But, supposing your ram-cooling solution keeps them at low temperature and that you are a little bit lucky, everything is going to be just fine

Seems to me unfair though Now that I've found some nice piece of DDR2 (Crucial Ballistix PC8500 2G kit) benching SPi 32M @ ~640MHz (1280MHz DDR) 4-4-4-4 1T @ 2.65Vdimm @ 12cm delta fan constantly blowing un-limited air on 'em, you found that DDR3 kit

[NewBeetle]

11.xx Category (#238's update)

M/B: ASUS Rampage Extreme (Bios: 0701.ROM)
CPU:Core2 Duo E8600 Q820A599
Memory: CellShock DDR3 1800 1GB x 2
VGA:MSI NX7900GTO 512MB PCI-EX
HDD:Western Digital WD360ADFD (AHCI)
OS: Windows Server 2003

[George_o/c]

Wow, great score newbeetle

[dami1stm]

Yeah, very beautiful time for the frequency

[George_o/c]

Newbeetle-san can I ask you sth ? From your testing, and when it comes to SPi 32M + Windows Server 2k3, what's the fastest theme ? Luna or Windows Classical ?
I can also see, that you chose to use, a MaxMem value that is equal or maybe bigger than ~640MB ...

[NewBeetle]

Yeah, very beautiful time for the frequency

Thank you, dami1stm-san.

Newbeetle-san can I ask you sth ? From your testing, and when it comes to SPi 32M + Windows Server 2k3, what's the fastest theme ? Luna or Windows Classical ?
I can also see, that you chose to use, a MaxMem value that is equal or maybe bigger than ~640MB ...

Thank you for your reply, George_o/c-san.
I don't know what theme is the fastest but I use "Windows Classical".
And my MAXMEM value is "640MB"

[dami1stm]

Thank you, dami1stm-san.

You should test bios 401, according to my personnal tests it was the fastest for Superpi32M between 301 / 501 and 601. I did not test 701 but i don't have any more RE for do this test

[George_o/c]

Thank you for your reply, George_o/c-san.
I don't know what theme is the fastest but I use "Windows Classical".
And my MAXMEM value is "640MB"

You 're welcome It's always a pleasure to see great efficiency SuperPi runs

I'll definitely test the maxmem value you 're suggesting And, I also really got to test Windows Server 2k3, regarding their impact on SPi 32M

[proxis]

why is there setfsb with frequency looking to be tuned down?

[3oh6]

alright, i have stayed away from this thread as every time i update the results, i spend an afternoon or more working on times of mine...and i am too busy to play around with 32M right now

needless to say, i did an update today and of course had to defend a time slot. @ToyTen & dami1stm, crazy nice work gents.

11.xx Category (#238's update)

M/B: ASUS Rampage Extreme (Bios: 0701.ROM)
CPU:Core2 Duo E8600 Q820A599
Memory: CellShock DDR3 1800 1GB x 2
VGA:MSI NX7900GTO 512MB PCI-EX
HDD:Western Digital WD360ADFD (AHCI)
OS: Windows Server 2003

this one i am having trouble touching, nice work buddy

You should test bios 401, according to my personnal tests it was the fastest for Superpi32M between 301 / 501 and 601. I did not test 701 but i don't have any more RE for do this test

interesting, thanks for the heads up. i am on 0501 right now but will give 0401 a shot to see what the difference is. now for my single update...

E8400 (Q808A476) 7.5 x 590 (boot at 590*7.5)
Thermalright Ultra-120
Asus Rampage Extreme (0501)
Swiftech MCW30/PA 120.2/DD5 // P5B-Dlx SB (NB // SB cooling)
Ballistix 2x1GB PC3-16000 CL9
Biostar 7600GS (no drivers)
Seagate 7200.9 80GB SATA2 (10GB partition for OS)
Seagate 7200.9 80GB SATA2 (3.5GB partition for SPi/Page)
Silverstone Zues ST56ZF 560W
WinXP Pro SP3 (custom nLite'nd job)

4424.3MHz SPi 32M = 9m 59.969s
click for full size including memset...

my G.Skill HZs seem to be on their way out so i am having to bench at a lofty 58 tRFC as the Ballistix just can't run the 4x's that my G.Skills could. this puts me behind the 8 ball but finding another dual channel kit of DDR3 at this point just isn't worth the time or money...bigger and better things are already in the mail

[skyline2550]

Hi everyone
my new record !
3998 @ 10m59s

[3oh6]

11.xx Category (#238's update)

M/B: ASUS Rampage Extreme (Bios: 0701.ROM)
CPU:Core2 Duo E8600 Q820A599
Memory: CellShock DDR3 1800 1GB x 2
VGA:MSI NX7900GTO 512MB PCI-EX
HDD:Western Digital WD360ADFD (AHCI)
OS: Windows Server 2003

this one i am having trouble touching, nice work buddy

all i needed was a nap. i am still further back than i should be because of the high tRFC but still able to keep up with you tRFC45 cats...for now

E8400 (Q808A476) 6 x 591.5 (boot at 592*6)
Thermalright Ultra-120
Asus Rampage Extreme (0501)
Swiftech MCW30/PA 120.2/DD5 // P5B-Dlx SB (NB // SB cooling)
Ballistix 2x1GB PC3-16000 CL9
Biostar 7600GS (no drivers)
Seagate 7200.9 80GB SATA2 (10GB partition for OS)
Seagate 7200.9 80GB SATA2 (3.5GB partition for SPi/Page)
Silverstone Zues ST56ZF 560W
WinXP Pro SP3 (custom nLite'nd job)

3549.1MHz SPi 32M = 11m 59.969s
click for full size including memset...

[George_o/c]

Hey Jody , grats on your scores mate ! Crazy fast !
Can I ask you sth ? You think that SP3 is faster than SP2 as far as XP + SPi 32M are concerned ? And moreover, since you're on XP, what theme is that ?

[3oh6]

thanks George, but they could be much quicker if my G.Skills were still cooking.

i honestly don't know if SP3 is faster, i would imagine it all comes down to the rest of the OS tweaks. i basically had to re-do my whole 32M OS yesterday to catch these cats running tRFC of 45. i simply integrated SP3 because it was there, didn't really give much thought to it. i also completely changed my CW that seems to work really well with this new OS setup. my old CW isn't quite as fast using ERAM...this new one that the above runs are on don't use ERAM like in my screencast.

the theme in the screenshots is just windows classic with some color changes and size changes for tighter screenshots. i change to that theme just for the screenshots, i run SPi with a different theme.

[George_o/c]

Well, I always thought that SP2 was faster than SP3 ... I mean, I'm not just walking around saying that, I've done my share of tests and it seems that the outcome of 'em was that SP2's better than SP3 ... But yesterday, I benched SPi 1M & 32M with an old-mighty P4 3GHz Northwood + some nice mushkin bh5 (I missed those old farts ), using a 90MB WinXP + SP3 installation I already had in that hdd ... At 3300 I did a 41.028sec with XP+SP3, when with XP+SP2 my fastest was 41.043sec ... (same nLited chopped-off stuff, just different SP) ... 32M was like a second faster with SP3 ...

Now I don't know, why on earth that happened, and even more why this thing didn't occur to me the last time I tested SPi with SP2/SP3, but I kind of think that it has to do with the OS ... Last time both installations were at ~160MB ... Maybe, the more you tweak your OS, the more the SP impact can be observed I didn't use a 65/45nm cpu, because SP impact on 1M can't be really told in ~15 seconds ... But when it's 40 seconds, you can clearly see the difference I need to test more thoroughly though ...

For my 1M runs, I used : 512MB CDT-IV (128KB single file size), no MM

For my 32M runs, I used : 4096MB CW (old nicely done, c spi + OS hdd, d pagefile hdd (512-512), copied from c ---> d, d ---> c, c ---> d), 640MB MM

[NewBeetle]

why is there setfsb with frequency looking to be tuned down?

It shows that I didn't use SetFSB and never change the CPU frequency.

alright, i have stayed away from this thread as every time i update the results, i spend an afternoon or more working on times of mine...and i am too busy to play around with 32M right now

this one i am having trouble touching, nice work buddy

Thank you so much for update and congrats your good results.

DEWA DEWA
NewBeetle

[George_o/c]

It shows that I didn't use SetFSB and never change the CPU frequency.

Nice one

[dinos22]

i tested the new i920 CPU on Gigabyte X58-UD5 board
it makes these current numbers look depressing
it's just so ridiculously fast it is not funny

4.2GHz i920 does the same time as 5.7GHz E8600 faints

[BenchZowner]

i tested the new i920 CPU on Gigabyte X58-UD5 board
it makes these current numbers look depressing
it's just so ridiculously fast it is not funny

4.2GHz i920 does the same time as 5.7GHz E8600 faints

Sure thing.
I've noticed that on one of my first... and last runs with a 965.
But then again... it can't beat my 7GHz E8600

[dinos22]

Sure thing.
I've noticed that on one of my first... and last runs with a 965.
But then again... it can't beat my 7GHz E8600

you have a 7GHz E8600 WHAT

[BenchZowner]

Ooops, I pressed 7 instead of...5 sorry
I was just kidding, and expecting you to "bite"

However, I might just get one 7GHz chip this week, I'm going to buy some E8600's this Thursday.

[dinos22]

lol you had me going there for a sec hahahah

stock nehalem 920 CPU gets sub 12m lol
CPU frequency was 2833MHz during the run

[George_o/c]

Jesus, stop insulting all the other users who are still messing with 65nm/45nm CPUs (yeah, I'm still playing with a bunch of 65nm cpus ... , and Bill will soon buy some more E8600s )
Nehalem rocks, ok we got that

j/k dinos

P.S. Bill will probably buy like 10 E8600s ... Dinos what do you say ? ... 50$ that none of them will be able to pull off an SPi 256K run @ 6100MHz ... You 're in or ?

[ToyTen]

Hi all, is it possible to have good results here on a XP Pro SP3 without making it lighter with nLite ? (never tried that software) just by tweaking it in msconfig ?

I wonder why I just can't approach the 1st places of the 11 TimeZone. I'm still using the sp2 of my XP Pro(which isn't lightened with nLite precisely). Also I boot arround 580, maybe I should try booting seen upper in this page ? Many things making that low clock bench very interesting