Upgraded Processor = SLOWER RC5?

[SuperSix]

I recently upgraded form a Celeron 600 o/c to 900 (which I was averaging 2.27mk/sec) to an Intel P-III 700 o/c to 866, and now I'm only "crunching" 1.7mk/sec.

Why the large drop? Shouldn't it be a bit FASTER with the additional L2? Or is is all Mhz, and if so, should it drop THAT much?

TIA

 

[micron]

According to the speed page you should be getting 2.4 Mk/sec. Maybe you have something running in the background taking up resources.

 

[Choralone]

D.net will drop a little for you since it doesn't care about the additional L2 Cache, it's small enough to run in L1. But you should be cracking at around 2.4MK/sec. I'd check to make sure there's nothing else eating up a bunch of CPU time. It looks like before when you had your C2 @ 900 you were getting 2.27mk when you should have been getting closer to 2.5mk

Edit: You beat me too it micron! I need to type faster!

 

[Possessed Freak]

most of the time it is about pure mhz within the same architecture.

P6 cores produce the same output per mhz.

ppro, celeron, p2, p3, coppermines.. all the same permhz.

the decrease can be due to running something in the background

[edit] man when I started to reply, nobody had posted in this thread!

 

[Sukhoi]

It's SETI that likes the larger/faster L2 cache. RC5 only cares about MHz since it fits in the L1 cache.

 

[Ken g6]

Okay, now that everyone's posted about the problem, it's time to post the solution. Since you don't have WinNT's Task Manager, you can use that program, Another Task Manager, to determine which programs are taking cycles.

Good luck!

 

[SuperSix]

Thanks for all the replies, I will check it out in the AM.

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