Calculate Pi

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Mistershine said:

Sqrl said:

Mistershine said:

Sqrl said:
Athlon 64 6000+ X2 also and I got 28 seconds for 1M.

Thats nearly 20% faster than me with the same CPU. Curious.

Bus Speed and the Memory timings can make difference. Still thats a rather big difference for just those factors. I'm at stock settings also so its not that. I'd have to know more about your setup to say for sure.

 

 

Mobo: Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe

Ram: 2gb KVR

VGA: 2x 3850 512 (not that vga cards matter in this).

All are at default settings. I am hoping to get a phenom soon, so I will see how fast that can do it.

Well there is no bus speed differences since you're using an AM2 CPU (AM2+ would open your mobo up more), I'm guessing that the difference is being caused by two things.  The speed of the ValueRam and a difference in software running in the background during the test.   I keep a fairly light load on my PC, partially because I re-install far to often and partially because it is a slight performance increase.

Note I'm assuming you have 2 1GB sticks of Ram to take it advantage of Dual Channel, if you don't that could definitely account for a large difference.  I'm pretty sure you know that but pointing it out anyways.

If you're curious my specs are:

Mobo: Asus Crosshair 

RAM: 4 GB Corsair XMS DDR2 800 

Video: 2x eVGA 8800 GT 512

I know the crosshair is regarded as one of the faster Mobos out and there can be noticeable differences even with tech specs that are identical.  Just another example of why tech specs aren't the whole picture...etc...with that said the M3A32-MVP-D is no slouch either. I couldn't find any head to head benchmarks for them though to see if that was the issue, good mobo reviews are pretty hard to find...most people seem to ignore them in favor of the sexier parts (CPU/GPU/etc..).