Some Preliminary Nforce results

[DDad]

A couple of weeks ago I'd mentioned I'd built a demo/loaner box that was sold to the first company I'd loaned it to (before I'd even had a chance to do a good burn in!). Got the company out of the mess they were in, and I've now had the machine back for 2 days (they want a couple of changes in the hardware, some other software loaded etc). Loaded up Seti and I've got some preliminary results. The Specs:
Asus A7N266
Athlon 1700+ (For testing, clocked to 140 fsb for 1800+)
256 mb DDR
40 gb WD 7200 HD
XP Pro

My system:

Gigabyte GA7DX (thank you AMD!)
Athlon 1800+
512 mb DDR
40 GB WD 7200
XP Pro (demo)


Surprising to me is the fact that it's overall faster than my 1800+ on a GB GA7dx. I'm seeing 7-8 a day on the Nforce board- 6-7 on the Gigabyte. Mind you, I also do a fair amount of Photoshop, games, etc on my system, but the reported times are consistantly 3:10- 3:30 for the Nforce- 3:40-4:00 for the Gigabyte.
Overall, seems to be a very quick, very stabile system- it did have a few quirks with the inital setup, but nothing too unusual- a quick and easy build! I'd highly recommend it- especially if you want a integrated lan box also for crunching.....

 

[Evadman]

I would assume that is because of the memory archetecture. SETI is very dependant on memory bandwith, and as such, the dual memory bandwith will help it out.

 

[Assimilator1]

Good times for the Nforce ,what was the AR of the WU's?

Btw the Gigabyte uses the AMD760 chipset which has less memory bandwidth & slightly higher latency than either the VIA KT266a or the Nvidia chipset ,you'd probably find that the KT266a would come very close to the Nforce times

Though I have a KT266a board my WU times aren't really comparable because I have my XP on a 153MHz FSB with CAS2

 

[Baldy18]

My Gigabyte GA7DX (thank you AMD!) & Athlon 1800+(@142FSB) averages 3:30/WU.

 

[mechBgon]

Just for clarification, the nForce system is using two memory modules, is that right?

Knowing nVidia's aggressiveness, it will be interesting to see what the "nForce2" will be capable of, whenever it comes out. I've got high expectations.

 

[DDad]

BTW, it is a single stick of Crucial DDR
With any luck at all, next week will have some idea what a 2100+ on a KT 333 will do.......

 

[Crazee]

My 1800+ on my Soyo K7V Dragon+ (KT266A) averages 3:13 (714 WUs)

 

[ElFenix]

wow, thats a single stick?


over the last week or so my 1540/140 is doing 3.57 hr/wu, so the nforce looks to be quite a bit faster, even in single stick config... i'll bet its dasp.

 

[Assimilator1]

My XP1500 @ 1.53GHz does an average AR WU in about 3.5hrs ,HAR WU's get done in about 3hrs