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[m.oreilly]

In these days of fast paced hardware changes, the system you built 6 months ago, as fast as it was, usualy looks a little pokey when the new wave of gear arives on the scene. I'm not much of a bench fan (well, maybe during the first week after a new build ), so after the novelty of newness wears off, it's just another box under the desk, faithfully (hopefully) doing what it was designed for, seen and not heard...untill you notice you haven't paid off that beauty, and new, faster (and in many cases, cheaper) cpus , ram, motherboards and gpus start popping up (all of wich are not compatible with anything you have, save for your case), and you wonder what you were thinking, when your credit card was burning a hole in the palm of your sweating hand as you pressed "place order", with several thousand $$$ worth of shiny new components in your shopping cart, those short 6 months ago...

well, now that the new Intel stuff is here, and the magic 6 month dateline has been crossed, i thought i would give the "old" girl a light shakedown, see what she does compaired to the new kids on the block. The bench used today is the Everest Ultimate release (latest), and as a disclaimer, it is being run under 64bit Vista:




I had a laugh when i saw the cpu temps Everest reported:


...though the system info seemed a bit more complete:


Here we go for the first mem test:
Read:

looks like the P4EE is whoopin' us all

write:

one for the old school

Mem copy:

again, one for the home team.

Here, the registered memory shows its' not the swiftest on the block:


Again, another gold star for the old rig:


WOW, just keeps on ticking:


Now the Intel core duo extreme is showing its' stuff:


Another Intel victory:


The core duo is again way out front here:


And a close neck and neck to finish the Everest benches:


Well, we did ok B) . Granted, this is a simplistic example of comparative performance. Just something to do on a cold Tuesday morning

[David_Heavey]

Do you think you would have got better results if you tried it in a fully supported OS?

[m.oreilly]

David_Heavey, on Oct 3 2006, 12:49 PM, said:

Do you think you would have got better results if you tried it in a fully supported OS?

the $6,000,000 question... :smoke:

[David_Heavey]

LOL. I'd assume you would though.

[m.oreilly]

it was just for fun, and i ain't gonna pull vista to run a bench. but yeah, might of had a bit more "juice" if
running xp...

[David_Heavey]

I enjoyed reading it to be honest. Good stuff MO

[bluerip]

Nice rig, mo! Nothin to sneeze at.

[simon]

great rig and review on software MO

[chriso_86]

Nice job MO!! Interesting results. However, I would say your are better then most since you have such a kick but processor in your machine to start out with. Most don't have that initially. I would still rank you system on the high end of stuff.