my 3.0e Prescott running a lil slow, Power Supply the Cause?

[supzz]

my prescott seems to be runnin slower than normal.

on pcmark 2002 my cpu score is only 6300.

i upgraded to the newest bios.


im running a fan on top of the heatsink, the thermaltake smart fan. set it at the highest setting.

my case temp is 40c
CPU temp is 50c


do you guys think it might be my power supply ? not enough power? would this cause it?

im running
1 gb kingston ddr ram
ati aiw 9800 pro
dvd-rw
1 - 80gb hd
1 - 120gb hd
audidy2 zs platinium
3 fans

the computer is a dell presicion workstation 360.

 

[myocardia]

You better hope not, because Dell's use a proprietary psu & motherboard, so you can't swap either, without swapping both.

 

[Shimmishim]

win2k or winxp?

 

[supzz]

Originally posted by: Shimmishim
win2k or winxp?

im running XP

 

[Soulkeeper]

HT is still enabled right ?

 

[supzz]

yes HT is on

 

[myocardia]

You DO know that a Prescott is ~400 mhz slower than a P4C, don't you? Just ask Soulkeeper.

 

[Big Lar]

I had a 3.0E, and I wouldn't quite say the chip ran 400mhz slower, I did find when running the E versus my C chip at 3750, that the C chip beat the E chip by a bit over 100pts in sandra cpu test, hardly what would be 400mhz. T prescott chip shines where the extra cache kicks in, as in crunching D2ol with 2 instances running, as both are cached, and the processor out performs the Northy in that, other than that, from what I had seen with mine, the Prescott falls short of the Northy, but not by all that much.

 

[myocardia]

Well, I haven't bought one, and won't be buying one (the Prescott, I have plans on building a P4C system), but the only person I know of who's actually done a little bit of testing (Soulkeeper) said it was ~400 mhz difference. It does depend on what you are using to do the testing with, for sure, and I can't remember what it was that he said he was using. Maybe he'll pop in later, so he can tell us.