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Fullmetal Chocobo

Fullmetal Chocobo

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My system = 473.
Her system = 332. (OCed her Opty 148 from 2.2 to 2.62, and it went up from 274)

So that settles that debate. Granted, I haven't tweaked her machine or anything, but that gives a pretty good indication. Not to mention her machine creams mine when it comes to gaming. But my machine has justified it's existence. 🙂

And due to the death of my keyboard recently, I have a very interesting new way of modding and viewing my machines' stats. Pic #1, and the close up on stats. Pretty cool.
 
I see the problem. Your desk is too clean. Computers run better with a little clutter around them to channel the air flow and concentrate the electrons. 😉
 
FMC

So that's dual P4/Xeon 2.66GHz HT vs Opteron 148 @ ??
Nice numbers from your dualie 😀
What's the best setup for DPAD on that then?

Those stats for the Opteron don't look right though,I assume your quoting Kpts/s? (as per muon1benchmark.exe)
My Sempron 3100 @ 2.51GHz does 301 Kpts/s ,& that's got 1/4 the L2 cache & only single channel RAM compared to the Opteron.

 
The best setup for the dual Xeon for me has been running one instance, and setting the # of threads to auto. Letting it run with 4 threads in one instance was a lot more stable than running four different instances with the # of threads set to 1. Not to mention it's a lot less of a pain in the ass.

Hmmm. I'll check into the wife's numbers. She might have been running SETI on her login or something. I'll check that out and test it again.
 
Okay, I ran it again, and her's is running 274. So that's much better. Eventually I'll get to tweaking her stuff. Windows needs a lot of registry edits done, I'm sure...

EDIT: I just realized that I've been running both of ours on 'low', and not 'background'. I'm not sure if that is going to make a difference, but I changed it on her machine now. I'll have to wait until mine comes back up to make the changes on there.
 
Mine are set to background.

I'm no expert on DPAD benchmarking & requirments but 274 Kpts/s still seems lowish to me,unless cache sizes makes no difference to DPAD?
You didn't say what the 148 was clocked to.

I would of thought that any 146+ Opteron would beat my XPM 2500 @2.5GHz ,it gets 262 Kpts/s.

Thoughts anyone?
Any other single core Opteron DPADers out there? 😉
 
Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Mine are set to background.

I'm no expert on DPAD benchmarking & requirments but 274 Kpts/s still seems lowish to me,unless cache sizes makes no difference to DPAD?
You didn't say what the 148 was clocked to.

I would of thought that any 146+ Opteron would beat my XPM 2500 @2.5GHz ,it gets 262 Kpts/s.

Thoughts anyone?
Any other single core Opteron DPADers out there? 😉
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Everything is stock as of right now. I've been trying to OC it, but it won't change from 201.46 MHz, despite what I change in BIOS. Very strange. And I haven't tweaked the registry setting yet, so it likely isn't taking advantage of the cache.
 
Why do you need to tweak the registry for the cache?

IIRC an Opty 148 runs at 2.2GHz ,maybe the cache doesn't boost DPAD much then?
If so then I guess the extra clock speed of my CPUs is enough.

I'm going to see if I can find more single core Opty/Ath64 owners at the DPAD forum
 
Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Why do you need to tweak the registry for the cache?

IIRC an Opty 148 runs at 2.2GHz ,maybe the cache doesn't boost DPAD much then?
If so then I guess the extra clock speed of my CPUs is enough.

I'm going to see if I can find more single core Opty/Ath64 owners at the DPAD forum
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Because by default, Windows XP doesn't use the cache. There is a registry edit that can be done to use the cache, and (theoritically) increase performance some.

I just uped her CPU to 2.6GHz, so I'll see if that makes any difference. If it does, then it is most definitely CPU GHz dependent.
 
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Why do you need to tweak the registry for the cache?

IIRC an Opty 148 runs at 2.2GHz ,maybe the cache doesn't boost DPAD much then?
If so then I guess the extra clock speed of my CPUs is enough.

I'm going to see if I can find more single core Opty/Ath64 owners at the DPAD forum
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Because by default, Windows XP doesn't use the cache. There is a registry edit that can be done to use the cache, and (theoritically) increase performance some.

I just uped her CPU to 2.6GHz, so I'll see if that makes any difference. If it does, then it is most definitely CPU GHz dependent.
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Wow. quite the improvement. From 274 to 332. And that was only going up 400 MHz. Sweet. I'm still working on getting my machine up, so that I can print the list of registry edits for tweaking her machine.
 
Nice 🙂

Sounds like pure GHz count over cache for DPAD ,that latter score ties in with another Opty owner who gets 341 Kpts/s @2.76GHz. 🙂

About XP & cache ,I don't recall Anandtech saying he has to edit the registry before he benchies 1MB cache CPUs ,are sure about that? goty any links about it?

Just been looking at the scores over on the DPAD forum & that's confused me again.
Your Dual Xeon @2.66GHz is scoring much higher than a dual Xeon 3.2GHz😕 ,it's managing 387 ,am I missing something?
 
Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Nice 🙂

Sounds like pure GHz count over cache for DPAD ,that latter score ties in with another Opty owner who gets 341 Kpts/s @2.76GHz. 🙂

About XP & cache ,I don't recall Anandtech saying he has to edit the registry before he benchies 1MB cache CPUs ,are sure about that? goty any links about it?
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yes, I do, but not here at home. My server is still down, so I can't get to the files I need to for it. When I do, I'll post the list of registry edits, and the ones that work on the cache. (And regedit access disabled here on this machine at work, else I'd dig and find it here).

EDIT: It's under the improved memory management section of the registry. By default, it is set to 0. But it should be set to the amount of cache on the processor (in k). So my Xeon's are set to 512.
 
Ok thx 🙂

Btw just been looking at the scores over on the DPAD forum & that's confused me again.
Your Dual Xeon @2.66GHz is scoring much higher than a dual Xeon 3.2GHz😕 ,it's managing 387 ,am I missing something?
473 wasn't a typo was it? 😉
 
Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Ok thx 🙂

Btw just been looking at the scores over on the DPAD forum & that's confused me again.
Your Dual Xeon @2.66GHz is scoring much higher than a dual Xeon 3.2GHz😕 ,it's managing 387 ,am I missing something?
473 wasn't a typo was it? 😉
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No, I typed what it was getting. I'll check it again when I get the machine back up and running. Which will be Monday. It's too bad I can't OC these things. hehehe
 
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