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TURBOT

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On my Dell XPS M1710 Laptop running XP with 2gb RAM. I got the following results:

T2500 @ 2.00 GHZ, SuperPi 16M took 13mins 38 seconds
 

thilanliyan

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I got 8m 46s on a mobile Penryn at 2.53GHz (6mb cache).

Lol it keeps locking up (the program, not the computer) when I run it on my Phenom system. :(
 

Idontcare

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Originally posted by: thilan29
Lol it keeps locking up (the program, not the computer) when I run it on my Phenom system. :(

A single-instance of sPi should not lock up your rig. Something isn't right. Phenom's have long been tested with sPi, it is not the program doing the locking-up but rather something in your system is unstable when sPi calculations tickle that part of the CPU/HT/Ram.

Personally I would not take a sPi lockup lightly, it's considered the easiest way to get in a benchrun and screenie on a suicide overclock for a reason (its not very taxing).
 

thilanliyan

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Originally posted by: Idontcare
Originally posted by: thilan29
Lol it keeps locking up (the program, not the computer) when I run it on my Phenom system. :(

A single-instance of sPi should not lock up your rig. Something isn't right. Phenom's have long been tested with sPi, it is not the program doing the locking-up but rather something in your system is unstable when sPi calculations tickle that part of the CPU/HT/Ram.

Personally I would not take a sPi lockup lightly, it's considered the easiest way to get in a benchrun and screenie on a suicide overclock for a reason (its not very taxing).

It doesn't actually lock up my rig...the program starts fine and after a while it just stops responding and I have to force it to close...any other programs I'm running are fine. I set the affinity to 1 core and that core stays pegged at 100% until I manually close the program...and this is after letting run for >15 minutes. I dunno... I'm Prime95 small FTT stable for several hours and I've never had any other programs lock up doing anything else either. I'm at 2.9GHz and I'm running the ram slower than DDR2-800. I ran memtest for a couple of cycles on the ram and that was fine too. :confused:
 

TennesseeTony

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I got 4 min 24 seconds on my i7 920, running 4GHz, DDR3-1200. My P4 3.0GHz ran it in 20m46s. I was definitely due for an upgrade. ;)
I wonder what speed memory the original poster was using to get such unbelievable results?
 

TennesseeTony

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I opened my mouth and inserted my foot in the above post. I, for some reason, was thinking the original poster ran the test in less than 3 minutes.

On a side note, if any one else is having trouble getting the P6T to run with six sticks of ram, message me please? Any solution to this issue?
 

OCGuy

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Originally posted by: TennesseeTony
I got 4 min 24 seconds on my i7 920, running 4GHz, DDR3-1200. My P4 3.0GHz ran it in 20m46s. I was definitely due for an upgrade. ;)
I wonder what speed memory the original poster was using to get such unbelievable results?

Nice!


/jealousy
 

Jingato

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Originally posted by: TennesseeTony
I got 4 min 24 seconds on my i7 920, running 4GHz, DDR3-1200. My P4 3.0GHz ran it in 20m46s. I was definitely due for an upgrade. ;)
I wonder what speed memory the original poster was using to get such unbelievable results?

I just got a 920 and a p6t but I haven't set it up yet. What settings did you use to get it to 4GHz? My memory is ddr3-1600 and I'm using a liquid cooling system. I'm a noob when it comes to overclocking though. Is there any way you could upload your O.C. Profile?
 

AdamK47

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Originally posted by: AdamK47
4 minutes 55 seconds on a 3.4GHz Core i7.

3400MHz (200MHz x 17) core
3600MHz QPI
3200MHz uncore
800MHz (1600 DDR) memory @ 9-9-9-24-1T triple channel

Since getting a Cooler Master V8 I've been running at 3.6GHz. I now get 4 min 42 sec. That's with everything above, but with the core clock up to 3.6GHz.