Re: super pi database
 

My new work laptop does 35s - a 1.8Ghz Core Duo (not C2D) :)

Re: super pi database
 

Almost the same thing - C2D is heavily worked Core Duo : Nice chip

---------- Post added at 00:09 ---------- Previous post was at 00:04 ----------

LOL the cash besides as Druchii says missus is a factor but then again she has no control of my finances - as long as the bills are being paid she dont give a toss. :) Being unemployed for a year also plays a factor - It always happens to me when I'm on my tod I end up spending on hardware.... When I'm working I just dont get the time to play ! Funny world.

Anyway having looked around seems like 26s is the time for a stocked E6400 I'm lagging due to the cr*p board but

Nonetheless getting one of those sexy new boards the E6400 due to it's multiplier will OC very well on air.

Re: super pi database
 

I always say buy the products where the balance is price/perfromance the c2d balance point is the E6600 also its the first proper Conroe and the lesser chips are different and always spend as much as you physically can afford

Re: super pi database
 

Hmmmm

E6400 £144 mobo £36 ram re-use old DDR 1gig = £170

E6600 £210 mobo £50ish lets just get a cheap 1 £100 for 1gig of DDR2 = £360

Thats a hella lot of difference.

Re: super pi database
 

whats stopping you putting the E6600 in the cheap board? its also a true conroe which the lower chips are not. so the difference is 66 quid

Re: super pi database
 

LOL Good point ZIng !

But I thought I'd use the money to buy a pair of SATA drives and so the overall system performance is enhanced

Re: super pi database
 

Ther are some people on another computer forum that do Super-Pi @ stock and O/C

http://www.buildyourown.org.uk/forum...TOPIC_ID=18050

Re: super pi database
 

I dont know what my chip does at stock speeds because quite frankly its never run at stock for more than a few minutes when i update the bios!

However at 3.7GHz my e6700 crunchs 1m super pi in 13 seconds.

The conroe does so well because of its shared 4meg caches, the allendales with there 2meg cache do suffer.

However they fare much better than athlon's which at best have only ever had 1meg of cache avaliable per core (the c2d has a unified cache both cores see the same cache) and currently most that are on sale only have 1/2meg of cache!

Re: super pi database
 

Nice thread again confirming that I should be in the 26s arena... I will be tuning once I have the time.

Anyway at least I beat this guy :D

47. bfbf - Pentium MMX 166MHz @ Stock - Stock Fan - 2211.014s

---------- Post added at 12:24 ---------- Previous post was at 12:18 ----------

Spot on Keith.

Zing really there is no architectural difference between the Allendale and Conroe albeit the cache and hence in this test the E6400 suffers... All my other benches put the E6400 10% down on the conroe except for the ones where cache is heavily used.

Oh well I'm still happy beats playing with an Athlon :)
I even missed the whole Athlon64 upgrade thing as I saw it as only marginal performance gain over an overclocked XP-M but the gap widens with the C2D platform to ~100+% gain hence my upgrade :D

Re: super pi database
 

Current Allendales are infact failed conroe's with 2megs of the cache failed. Unfortunutly you cant unlock the cache!

This does give the die a higher surface area / power output than the conroe's which is why they tend to overclock abit further.

There will be true 2 meg allendales coming soon which will be cheaper chips and probably end up being the new celerons.

When the core 2 originally came out and they had engineering samples of chips, several sites did comparisons between 2 and 4 meg chips to find where the cache mattered, and superpi was one of those cases.

Edit - Here is one of those reviews for where cache matters, http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=2795&p=4

Re: super pi database
 

thought i would resurrect this old thread rather than start a new one.

current i3 @ 4.4GHz superpi 1M @ 10 seconds

any other latest times with new kit?