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  1. poke349

    Multi-Threaded Super-Pi Contest

    Thought I'd give this thread a slight bump. Shigeru Kondo has used y-cruncher to set a new world record for the most digits of Pi at 5 trillion digits. Official Announcement: http://www.numberworld.org/misc_runs/pi-5t/announce_en.html XtremeSystems News...
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    Multi-Threaded Super-Pi Contest

    Thought I'd give this thread a little bump... ;) For small benchmarks: There's been some pretty devastating results on a pair of overclocked Xeon X5680s... :P (the new 6-core dual-socket Xeons) For large benchmarks: Someone with a pair of Xeon W5590s, 144GB of ram, and 16 x 2TB hard drives was...
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    Multi-Threaded Super-Pi Contest

    I'm just wondering if anyone has been playing around enough to know. How well does the program respond to different memory timings? I know that memory timings are a huge factor for SuperPi. So I'm just wondering if that's also the case for y-cruncher.
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    Post your SuperPi Score!

    Problem is that SuperPi isn't speed consistent between Windows and Linux. Especially if you're gonna compile it yourself. The only reason why you use SuperPi is because it's a set standard so that everyone has the same speed program. If you're gonna give up program consistency, then you might...
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    Multi-Threaded Super-Pi Contest

    Just a little bump and a heads up on something... I need some opinions on what I should do: The next version (v0.5.x), is faster than the current release. (It's nowhere near ready yet, so don't get excited...) I won't say how much faster, but it's enough to wreck havoc on competition...
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    Multi-Threaded Super-Pi Contest

    Yeah, let's see them. Be glad to update them. :D So I just finished running a whole set of benchmarks on my workstation using the latest version (with the efficiency %s)... The larger the computation, the better the efficiency, so I was gonna see what 8 cores on 64GB of ram can do... And it...
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    wats the best u can come up with in CPU's

    +1 Though I go dual-socket more for the ram than the processing power. You really can't cram too much ram into a single-socket mobo.
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    wats the best u can come up with in CPU's

    That's a dual-socket chip. It'll work in the single socket boards too, but it'll be a lot cheaper to just go with: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117220 Unless of course you're going for a dual-socket monster... :P
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    How does the FSB on a muilti-pricessor system work?

    There's one FSB for each processor. But no single thread can use both of them for double the bandwidth. Each socket only gets "its" FSB to use, the other socket can't really use it. So you will only feel the full benefit of the dual FSBs when you're running a multi-threaded load. I've measured...
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    Is thermal Grease Supposed to be applied like this?

    My bad... I should've been more specific. :o
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    Is thermal Grease Supposed to be applied like this?

    I meant Chlorine gas. I'm not a chem major, but I'm pretty sure what we smell at a swimming pool isn't pure Chlorine gas - even if it's very low concentrations of it...
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    Is thermal Grease Supposed to be applied like this?

    Is Chlorine odorless? (Not saying anyone should try to find out if it isn't listed anywhere...)
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    Is thermal Grease Supposed to be applied like this?

    The result is still the same... you die :D
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    Is thermal Grease Supposed to be applied like this?

    In other words... Chlorine gas... :D Doesn't sound like a very fun way to die. :o
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    Post Your Cable Management

    Nah... I've seen people pull it off much better than that. :P
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    Post Your Cable Management

    Here's my Core i7 Lanbox - fully functional and OC'able. Micro-ATX - I designed it that way because I knew I was gonna carry it on the plane to college. It was pretty hard to do cable management because it was so cramped... :o I had to sacrifice the second drive bay just to hold all the...
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    RAM allocation issues

    Assuming it's 2 + 1GB sticks, try pulling out the 2GB stick and booting. That should force the BIOS to reduce the reserved video memory down - then hope that it stays that way.
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    how much ram is enough ram?

    I would actually say 4GB as the absolute minimum if you want to future-proof yourself. Programs are getting more and more bloated at an ever increasing rate... For me at least, Firefox will leak 1GB of ram every 8 hours... iTunes will leak 1GB every week or so. I've had IE8 spill over 3GB of...
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    *Feels lke an idiot posting this*

    lol... If anyone understands how the resource hogger prank that I posted on the previous page works... you'll know how nasty that one truely is... But anyhow, I'm not the kind who usually starts them, but I am known to go a little overboard with payback pranks...
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    *Feels lke an idiot posting this*

    Another thing you can do (but I haven't had the opportunity to do yet), is this: 1. Install TeamViewer. 2. Disable the drivers for the mouse + keyboard. 3. Disable the usb drivers. (2 and 3 will have to be done remotely using teamviewer because you can't control the computer after you...
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