How much faster?

[MikeTimbers]

Those of you with AMD processors can you post how quickly they get through what size units?

My Celeron 533A @ 840 does a 68 in 11½ hours


How fast is an Athlon at Genoming?

[phil]

I am just running a 68AA on my T-Bird 1000@1575 and each 10% is taking 47 seconds...so a full sequence in 470 seconds and a full work unit 235 minutes (3hrs 55 mins).


Just a little quicker :D

[MikeTimbers]

Thinking of buying the following:

ECS K7S5A £52
Athlon 1400 (266) £93
256MB PC2100 £30 (crucial)

Plan on moving the 750E @ 1GHz P3 to replace the 533A @ 845Mhz and re-build main machine with the Athlon.

With Athlon prices so low I can't see the point of overclocking (gasp!)

What do you think?

[phil]

Originally posted by MikeTimbers
Thinking of buying the following:

ECS K7S5A £52
Athlon 1400 (266) £93
256MB PC2100 £30 (crucial)

Plan on moving the 750E @ 1GHz P3 to replace the 533A @ 845Mhz and re-build main machine with the Athlon.

With Athlon prices so low I can't see the point of overclocking (gasp!)

What do you think?



:eek: Yikes, give yourself a slap man....a 1.4 T-Bird will hit 1.6 quite nicely - I don't believe you weren't considering overclocking....especially coming from ACHO. tut, tut, tut ;)

[MikeTimbers]

Let me explain.

I don't want the noise associated with a delta but I don't want to run at silly temperatures.

I like the idea of a cheap intermediate step before getting a Palomino for sensible money.

The ECS motherboard doesn't overclock well but is very cheap and outperforms all but the AMD 761 chipset.

I'm thinking that buying a 1.4TB will increase my Genome output considerably and will cost little.

[LBaker]

Sounds like a plan Mike. I'd hold off on the cpu for a week or 2. Intel is due for a price drop and AMD should follow suit :D You will be quite impressed with the AMD system.

[MikeTimbers]

AMD's UK prices just dropped today. Last week the 1.4 was £125 and now it's £93. Are you saying it's going to go down again

[LBaker]

Originally posted by MikeTimbers
AMD's UK prices just dropped today. Last week the 1.4 was £125 and now it's £93. Are you saying it's going to go down again

Don't know for sure but from what I've been reading they will drop again soon. The 1.5 is supposed to be out soon and they usually drop prices when they introduce a new chip. Don't know the conversion rate but the 1.4 is $107 US.

[phil]

Originally posted by MikeTimbers
AMD's UK prices just dropped today. Last week the 1.4 was £125 and now it's £93. Are you saying it's going to go down again


Yeah, it may be wise to to wait another couple of weeks. You would kick yourself if that processor dropped £20. I did when I bought my first 1Ghz T-Bird for £165....7 days later it was £120 :rolleyes:

[MikeTimbers]

Super-Pi (http://members.xoom.com/bwray90/pi/superpi.zip)

The above link will download a small (50K) zip file containing a Pi calculator. Would anyone who can be arsed, download it and then run the 1million decimal places, then post the time with your processor spec.

P3 750E @ 1Ghz takes two minutes exactly.

I am particularly interested in Athlon/Duralon times. If anyone has a Palomino, please please please run this. I have heard extraordianry claims about how fast they can do this test.

[MechCD]

DUh 3 minutes with other stuff running, mainly G@H and quake 3 arena (very choppy)

that 3 minutes is not accurate cuz other stuff was running


2minutes 10 seconds on a 1ghz tbird. SOmehow i still don't think its accurate, i get different times each time i run it

[phil]

Originally posted by MikeTimbers
Super-Pi (http://members.xoom.com/bwray90/pi/superpi.zip)

The above link will download a small (50K) zip file containing a Pi calculator. Would anyone who can be arsed, download it and then run the 1million decimal places, then post the time with your processor spec.

P3 750E @ 1Ghz takes two minutes exactly.

I am particularly interested in Athlon/Duralon times. If anyone has a Palomino, please please please run this. I have heard extraordianry claims about how fast they can do this test.


I would love to help Mike, but both my 'birds are running Linux. I had a quick search about, but couldn't find a Linux prog. I can give you an RC5 bench using my 1575Mhz T-Bird if that is any help:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/phil.harling/images/rc5.gif

[dnar]

I tried the Pi progy on Windows/Win4Lin/Linux, Tbird 10x145, 1:45.

Currently crunching an 8aa unit, 24 seconds per sequence.

[siggy]

WOW....:eek:

[MechCD]

Ok, i must be special I have gotten, 2:10, 2:30, 1:56, 3,2:34 erm, seesm like its not the same all the time, he only one that should be different is the 3 minute one

[viperdog]

On two different but identically config'd T-birds..nothing else running, winME, 1.2@1382 ( 145FSB ) - (yep had to set them back from 150 - 92F here), 9.5 multiplier...


Both of them turned in the same times..1 min 50 sec..for the 1 million digit calc.

[MikeTimbers]

Wow, sounds like my times aren't that bad, so why are my Genome times not so good?

I saw a claim on www.hardforums.com from some japanese guy called Dr. Rabbits that a Palomino 1.2Ghz could do this SuperPi thing in 20 seconds!!!! compared to a Athlon 1.2 that took 35 seconds. It now seems that at least the latter of these was nonsense.

C'mon, prove I need to upgrade, people.

For the team, prove it!

[LBaker]

I came up with with a time of 2 minutes with a tbird 1000@1400. I don't care what the pi thing says, the tbird is much faster at genome. My tbirds run circles around my P III 1000 :D

[MikeTimbers]

So is it more than 1.4 times faster than your P3??

[LBaker]

Originally posted by MikeTimbers
So is it more than 1.4 times faster than your P3??
I'm getting about 60 wu aday from the birds and 40-45 a day from the pIII. I'm sure the chipset of the boards makes a big differance also. I'll run PI on the pIII and see what I get there. :)

[LBaker]

Just ran it on the PIII and got a time of 3min 1 second. Sounds like your system is kick arse for this anyhow :confused: My PIII is a dell and is not optimized at all. Won't let ya do much in the bios. What chipset is on your board?

[MikeTimbers]

King of chipsets - the good ol' 440BX

BE6-II v1.0
CAS2 PC-133 at 133 2-2-2

Using BXTune to set everything to very aggressive memory timings.

Damn it! I was all set to write this off as out-of-date and it seems that it still is very competitive.

[wbierman]

I just ordered a bunch of 1.4GHz T-birds today. I'll have them in place next week. Then I'll run the test...

[Dustin]

Originally posted by MikeTimbers
King of chipsets - the good ol' 440BX

It sure it the king! 440BX may be quite a bit dated now. But man, no other chipset comes close to the BX efficiency, and the crazy 50% overclock stability.

I wonder if Intel originally designed BX for 133Mhz, but never implemented it. The 1/4 PCI divider was there on the very first BX board, and auto activated at 133Mhz. That would explain the outrageous overclockability.