Sandy Bridge peculiarities in stability testing

[illuminati-hwt]

How were you able to get a hold of SP1? I'm fairly sure Microsoft hasn't rolled it out yet. It is shocking to see how much of a performance gain is caused by switching to AVX, but I suppose it uses the execution units more efficiently than SSE.

http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-...available.html

[some_one]

It is shocking to see how much of a performance gain is caused by switching to AVX, but I suppose it uses the execution units more efficiently than SSE.

What was shocking was that nobody with a SB was getting a performance gain. I tried to find out why this wasn't happening a couple of months back but no one seemed to be interested in finding out why at the time.

The reason for the increase is the new registers that are 256bit and can allow twice the throughput per clock cycle of the older 128bit SSE registers. Expect about a ~80% gain using SB with Linpack and AVX.

I finally got to do my own testing of this. You can see the results here, if interested.

Although SP1 is still beta it shouldn't be too long before it's finalized.

[ProStreetCamaro]

SP1 is no longer BETA. It is now RTM and I have it if anybody wants it. I will throw my ftp up so anybody can down load it. I have a 43/35 fiber connection here in maryland so your speed will vary depending on where your at.

This is for Windows 7 X64

ftp://96.231.188.246

username copper

password copper


EDIT: Holy cow somebody is downloading it right now at dial up speeds! Where the heck are you located????

[DAK1640]

Softpedia now has it for DL also...

[some_one]

Are you sure it's still there, link? Here's what Softpedia had to say as of 18-Jan 12:36GMT

At the same time I have started seeing a variety of other Builds on torrent sites claiming to be Windows 7 SP1 RTM...

...The best course of action for customers is to wait for Microsoft to offer the real Windows 7 SP1 RTM, which isn’t that far off into the future.

[bmg]

SP1 is no longer BETA. It is now RTM and I have it if anybody wants it. I will throw my ftp up so anybody can down load it. I have a 43/35 fiber connection here in maryland so your speed will vary depending on where your at.

This is for Windows 7 X64

ftp://96.231.188.246

username copper

password copper


EDIT: Holy cow somebody is downloading it right now at dial up speeds! Where the heck are you located????

Where did you get it from?

[ProStreetCamaro]

Where did you get it from?

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/thr...19-1850-leaked

[ProStreetCamaro]

Holy Gflops and heat batman!