Benchmark

[bogusmill]

I don't think you can get them equal. The cores are not side by side. The top one next to the heat sink will always be cooler.

 

Here's an interesting article on how water is not really better than air.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/showdoc.aspx?i=3097

[Zoober]

New (yesterday)Dell 390

QX6700 CPU,

4GB,

XP Pro,

2x 160 GB Raptors, Raid 0,

Quadro FX4600, 768MB video

 

7:08 1st run, no tweaks.

Now, on with the tweaks.....

[Guest]

quote:

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New (yesterday)Dell 390

QX6700 CPU,

4GB,

XP Pro,

2x 160 GB Raptors, Raid 0,

Quadro FX4600, 768MB video

 

7:08 1st run, no tweaks.

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Bet I am into to mine for less than yours

[Zoober]

I'll take that bet.........

I don't have a penny into it.

But the Co. just paid some good money for it. ($4,100 ish)

Now, if only my AMD's at home ran this fast...

I may become an intel fan yet....

[bogusmill]

I am an AMD fan, but I still want my $ to go as far as it can and right now that's not AMD.

[MLS]

So I finally did this before we try the new setup.

 

Time: 10:05

 

Precision 470 Desktop

Xeon 3.60 Ghz

3.59 Ghz, 4.00 GB RAM (3.0 Active)

XP Pro 32 bit

Quadro FX 3450

[Brian B 74]

7min 10sec.

 

Brand new custom built machine from Tigerdirect.com

 

Q6600 Quad-Core 2.4ghz

2gb PC-6400 Ram

Asus P5K-E Motherboard

74gb WD Raptor HD (1 only)

Quadro FX 1500 video Card

 

Total build cost - $1600.

 

Ran (2) simultaneous regenerations (dual monitors) - 7min 12sec.

[Guest]

Have you checked the temp on your cores on that Brian? Also do you know if you got a B3 or G0 stepper?

 

I only ask because I just sent mine back, RMA, I have one core running many degrees hotter than the rest.

[Brian B 74]

CPU-Z says stepping B, Revision G0.

 

As far as the temps, the ASUS probe only shows one temperature which is 40C. It doesn't show individual temps. Is there a utility for that somewhere?

[Guest]

Check this Brian

 

http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/CoreTemp/

[Dan@home]

5 min 50 sec.

 

Brand new out of the box. The very first thing I did was load MC and test this benchmark.

 

Dell Precision 690

Dual Xeons,3gig

Ram 4gigs

Nvidia Quadro Fx 4600 X 2

Dual Monitors. 2 more later.

160 gig HD 10,000 rpm.

Xp-Pro

[Brian B 74]

I think my mini-van was cheaper than your Precision 690. LOL! That computer had to run atleast $6k.

[Brian B 74]

John,

 

Thanks for the link for the utility. It shows all 4 cores running between 36-44C. The Tjunction is reading 100C. Is that normal?

[Guest]

quote:

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Thanks for the link for the utility. It shows all 4 cores running between 36-44C. The Tjunction is reading 100C. Is that normal?

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Have you put it under load and watched the temp?

 

This utility will help with that if you have not

Linky

 

The 100c is the upper limit max. Here is a link to a good article

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/221745-2...mperature-guide

 

 

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CPU-Z says stepping B, Revision G0.

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BTW, that is the desirable chip of the 2 Q6600's available. My original was a B3 stepper, I am hoping after my RMA I will get a G0. Gets here Monday, so I'll know then.

[Brian B 74]

Core 0 tops out a 59C while others top out at 51C. My pentium D ran at about 55C and topped out at 65C. This processor runs much cooler.

 

I also don't have any case fans yet. Will pick those up soon. I do have a HD cooler on my raptor. I read that those run very hot.

[Dan@home]

I'm pretty sure it was more, 8.??? Gs'. I got a good deal on it. Almost 1/2 price.

[Steve Hattori]

John Paris, I am running XP64. No problems, but no noticeable difference, either. I was hoping the support for multi-core CPUs and 64 bit op systems would speed things up, but I don't see any real difference. I think it may supprot more than 2Gigs of memory, which may be handy...

[Ployd]

10 Minutes

 

Dell Workstation PWS370

Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.6GHz

3.00 GB of RAM

NVIDIA Quadro PCI-E Series

[Guest]

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John Paris, I am running XP64. No problems, but no noticeable difference, either. I was hoping the support for multi-core CPUs and 64 bit op systems would speed things up, but I don't see any real difference. I think it may supprot more than 2Gigs of memory, which may be handy...

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Thanks Steve,

 

I actually tried setting up a Dual Boot with

WINXP64, got the 64 bit to install but lost my XP set up, wound up playing with the 64 bit for a while and then reformatted and went back to the 32 bit flavor.

 

As far as memory, depending on your motherboard 64 bit can support up to 8 gigs or RAM.

 

I did hear that MCAM is going to be supporting multi processors fairly soon, so that would be a big leap forward in and of itself.

 

It would seem software, or lack thereof, is the issue holding back the 64 bit hardware moving forward.

[Steve Hattori]

So, John, how soon is this multi-core support for Mcam coming? As far as X64- I am going to bump up to 4G of ram and see if there is any diff. Too bad X2 doesn't support a ramdisc...

Why did you switch back to 32?

 

Danbo, that's still a lotta palooka for a desktop! Weren't there some Xeons that got down to 2 or 3 minutes? Maybe if you tweak it bit it'll speed up..!

 

Just for grins, I spec'd out a laptop with a Q6700 and a 64gig Solid State Disc drive- about $4500. Ouch! Would be VERY fast, though, hehe..

[Dan@home]

This is the fastest comp. I have ever used. I don't want to jeopardize anything by messing with it. 1/2 price was still allot of $$$.

[Zoober]

quote:

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Too bad X2 doesn't support a ramdisc...

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Au contraire, mon frere....

I'm running Super speed's Ram Disk Plus just fine with MC. I have my temp and regen files on Ramdisk, and have cut surfacing regen times drastically.

They have a demo here

[Steve Hattori]

Robert, I have Superspeed's Ramdisc, and my files set up to use it for temp and regen...but X2 still uses the main hard disc for its temp file. How did you get it to change? Did you set Windows to use the Ramdisc itself somehow?

[Zoober]

Steve, make sure that you set up a regen and a temp directory on your ramdisk.

The plus version saves the ramdisk to HD before shutdown, otherwise, you need to re-create the directories when you reboot, as the ramdisk empties when ram does.

 

In MC, under config_> files, set your regen and temp files to the ramdisk directories.

My Ramdisk is mapped to Y:

 

Here is a screenshot of my ramdisk temp dir.

 

[Jack Neelands™]

New toy

 

 

XP64

INTEL®Core 2 Duo

Nvidia [email protected] Ghz

Nvidia Quadro Fx1500

4 gigs ram

 

11 min 10 secs

 

 

Solid works 64 works like a dream as well