Measure your Dual/Multi Core Notebook CPU Speed - Bye Bye to SuperPI

[SlimShady]

Intalled SP3 for my XP machine and dropped 5 full seconds off the time. No other changes made.......went from 55.120 down to 50.188 (ok, so not 5 FULL seconds, but close enough for gov't work)

[ViciousXUSMC]

I went up from 11.67 when I was FSB 400 x 9 for 3.6ghz and ram at DDR2 800 5-4-4-12

to FSB 450 x 8 for 3.6ghz and fram DDR2 900 5-4-4-12

I dont understand how overclocking the ram & fsb didnt cut my time down some.

[peterq2]

did the test again this time on both
windows XP x64
1G ddr2 running at 750MHz
athlon X2 duel core running at 2250MHz

32M test = 39.593 sec
1024M test = 1269.046 sec

[ViciousXUSMC]

11.217 Is my new lowest. 3.8ghz on the q6600

[dohuy]

I keep getting "unexpected error" when I try to run wprime. The program automatically quits on me before it even gets a chance to run. Specs in the sig. Any reason for why this is happening?

EDIT: I'm using v1.55 of wprime.

[Gophn]

"unexpected errors" means you are probably using Vista.

Note 1: (for all Windows versions w/ multiple user accounts) you need to have an account with Admin privileges (right-click on program or link and Run As Administrator) to run this benchmark.
Note 2-a: (for Vista) you need to manually set 2 threads under the advanced settings. Otherwise the times will be doubled.
Note 2-b: (for Vista) you might need to disable the User Account Control & any user passwords if you get an "Unexpected Error..."

[dohuy]

Well Note 2-b did the trick for me. It's kind of odd to see there aren't very many penryns listed under the hall of fame.

[Gophn]

there are a lot, I havent gotten around to update it yet.

[Jayayess1190]

Asus EEE 901
Windows XP Home SP3
1.6GHz Intel Atom with Hyperthreading
2GB OCZ DDR2-800 ram
12GB SSD



2nd time after closing some things and turning on High Performance mode:

[rmcarner]

"unexpected errors" means you are probably using Vista.

Note 1: (for all Windows versions w/ multiple user accounts) you need to have an account with Admin privileges (right-click on program or link and Run As Administrator) to run this benchmark.
Note 2-a: (for Vista) you need to manually set 2 threads under the advanced settings. Otherwise the times will be doubled.
Note 2-b: (for Vista) you might need to disable the User Account Control & any user passwords if you get an "Unexpected Error..."

This is the kind of crap that drove me nuts when I was running Vista Home Premium. No matter that I disabled the UAC - numerous times, I would attempt to delete a folder or move files around in Documents and get a prompt something to the effect that...'I didn't have permission to take such and such and action'.

Switching topics..

My 'old' laptop nearly top of the line when I got it, a Chembook 2056 [1.7 GHz Intel Pentium M735 (Dothan - 2048 L2 Cache) 128 MB Dedicated Video Ram - (Ati Radeon 9700 Pro w/ 4X AGP 3D Graphics Accelerator)60GB HD (5400 RPM) 512 MB DDR333 (PC2700) SDRAM (512 MB x 2)] took on wPrime and performed the task in a blazing 119 sec.

I just put together a desktop comprising of an Ultra XBlaster Mid-Tower with 650 Watt Power Supply/ Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40GHz/ 2GB DDR2 PC6400Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB HD - 16MB, Serial ATA-300/
XFX GeForce 8400 GS Video Card - 512MB DDR2. As you can see, I spared no expense on the video card.

In any event, just for yuks I ran xPrime in both 32M and
1024 M. 32M yielded 19.1 sec. 1024M yielded 566 sec. This unit is running XP Pro.

These scores are mitigated by the fact that my copy of XP, well...Uncle Bill doesn't recognize it as legitimate copy thus, I am not able to download Microsoft hotfix 896256 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896256), which supposedly addresses the problems that all notebooks and/or desktops - unless configured correctly will not support dual cores in Win XP.

Definitely time to get another notebook. All of my USB ports are not functioning anymore thus I have to use a PCMI/USB Cardbus in order to transfer data.

Mr. Vicious XUSMC's review of the C90S barebone kit sounds like and intriguing way to go especially since I had success 'building' the Ultra XBlaster from components. And then there is the Asus M50VM-A1....All there ready to go. xPrime score pretty decent. Decisions, decisions.