Suddenly my FX-57 is Beating the Core 2?
14 Jul 2007 0:22:08 UTC
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I'm the casual participant and only read the forums occasionally. A couple of days ago I noticed a BIG reduction in CPU time required to complete a work unit of approx the same size as before. Even beating Core 2 6300 and 6400 processors that I previously lagged far behind against.
I did make the CPU name change that was being looked at to enable the SSE2, or something like that. That was back in early June and it appeared to have no effect. I’ll have to go back and check to see if I put it back, but I don’t think I did. Maybe that is somehow affecting my results.
This increase in speed represents about a 23% increase in speed. No overclocking going on or anything like that.
Something change recently I don't know about?
Results for FX-57 on WinXP Pro SR2
Suddenly my FX-57 is Beating the Core 2?
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Given the lenght of your queue I think it just took you a while to start using the 4.24 app. It largely fixed a compiler bug that was badly hurting the performance of SSE capable AMD chips.
RE: Something change
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Yes, as Dan says, there was a new science app (4.24) which replaced the version (4.17) which was penalising AMD and PIII based machines. This new app was released on June 28 but only started on your machine after the queue of "old version branded" results had drained. Click on the ResultID and look at the bottom of the page to see the version used to crunch the result.
PS: You are likely to get a flood of Core 2 6400 owners suddenly challenging you if you think you really are beating them :).
Cheers,
Gary.
RE: RE: Something change
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But you did get a client error in a recent result. Is your box overclocked maybe a little bit too far?
Anyway, looking at the "Top Computers" statistics, the Intel boxes are hard to beat at the moment. The first AMD box appears near position 30 last time I checked.
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RE: Anyway, looking at the
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Yeah, but 8 cores of any architecture will be hard to beat. That quad core Opteron is still holding its own with the Intel quad cores. It goes to show just how good the 2P Opteron's really are considering the difference in age of architecture.
EDIT : Although I'm not sure if the ECC RAM in the Opteron makes a difference. Would it speed up results or slow them down?
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. - Richard Feynman
it might slightly slow the
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it might slightly slow the system down. Although since the A64 (and c2d) architecture is generally not memory bound it's unlikely to be a real impact.
Ah, new app version. I should
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Ah, new app version. I should have picked up on that.
Thanks for input guys.
The machine is not overclocked at all. The client error on that wu was probably due to BSODs that have suddenly appeared when video is being streamed in.
Hey Gary - copy that. I bow to all Core 2 6400s owners in a show of respect...
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Thanks Again -