NEW SYSTEM EXPERIENCE

[Santilli]

Doing some benchmarking of this beast.
DVD Decrypter on the 940:
10:12 to rip a DVD.
1-2% of processor, 1.8 GB of Ram used.


DVD Shrink to backup.
45% processor 15% memory 1.9 GB
rate 42,152 kb/sec
3:15 minutes/sec

[ddrueding]

Now you're cooking with gas

[Santilli]

Games. Unreal tourney 2004, Farcry, and COD4 are REALLY different, all played at max settings, no lag, incredible visuals.

[udaman]

Originally Posted by Santilli

Doing some benchmarking of this beast.
DVD Decrypter on the 940:

Beast? w/o any detailed spec's on said 'mystery' system, of what use is this thread/post to others who don't follow your every move?

Is that a Mac Mini ur reporting details on, using newly updated Bootcamp for Winblows 7?

Monitor/resolutions?

[Santilli]

Intel i7 940 @ 3Ghz
12GB DDR3 DRAM
Gigabyte X58 Chipset Motherboard
nVidia GeForce GTX 295
2x 160GB Intel 25M RAID0
LG BluRay Burner
and Plextor Bluray 310
Antec P183 Chassis
Seasonic 700W Power Supply

Monitors 37" Vizio VXT
Samsung 2233
7 Ultimate

[Santilli]

Same file

Read rate 6000kb/sec

DVDD 24 minutes.
Supermicro dual 2.8 ghz xeons.

[MaxBurn]

Very nice.

[ddrueding]

That is indeed a beast.

[Handruin]

To quote Morpheus...welcome...to the real world.

[Stereodude]

He could have gotten a low end modern PC and he'd still be blown away.

[Santilli]

Here's a 'low end PC upgraded with a Vertex Turbo:

[Santilli]

SSD raised the system score about 40 points...

[Santilli]

After watching DVD's and using 40-80 of the two processors, this was a bit of a shock, watching Pirates of the Carribean, doing a little Photoshop work, etc.


Speed test on boot drive...

[Santilli]

Some of the best ATTO numbers I've ever posted:

[Santilli]

Athlon 3200+ now takes 35 seconds to boot to splash screen. That's about half the velociraptor.

[Pradeep]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAyik...layer_embedded

Choose the 1080p option. You will probably need to pause the player and let the stream load all the way before playing.

[LunarMist]

Finally! How fast can that CPU run? 3GHz seems rather basic.

[Santilli]

Originally Posted by LunarMist

Finally! How fast can that CPU run? 3GHz seems rather basic.

I guess the real question for me would be, WHY?

[Santilli]

It overclocks itself, with no setting changes, to 3.11 ghz. Haven't noticed it go any higher yet, but I suppose it's possible.
That's consistent with the Passmark numbers. It runs a little faster then a 950, but, .9ghz slower then the 960 or 965. Pretty amazing. Intel has a cute little gadget that shows the overclock for your i7.

[Handruin]

That overclock (turbo boost) is variable depending on the number of active threads. The Argus monitor I've linked to before will show you how much and which cores are overclocking.

[Santilli]

Originally Posted by Stereodude

He could have gotten a low end modern PC and he'd still be blown away.

I DID build two middle area Athlon 3200+ computers in about 2006-7.
That was the right price for what I was doing at the time, about 200 for the processors.

Those passmark at about HALF the speed of the dual Xeons. The other components were not nearly as quick, either. Enterprise hardware does work to bring all the other levels of the pc up in speed. Storage has always been the weak link, in particular when you have duals working already.

EVEN using a SCSI cheetah for a boot drive, the 3200+ Athlons were not in the ball park with the dual Xeons. Passmark bears this out.

From 2007-2010, I might have gone for another system. But, to get a big processor jump would mean for me, at least 3 times the speed, or around 2700 for a Passmark score. That's the start of the quad cores, and, the i5's.

The i5's are STILL 190 up. So, I passed on those, and, the i7 920 would have been my next choice, in the bang for the buck, nearly doubling the speed of the i5's, for 200 dollars.
Even at 300, the 920 looks VERY good.

I didn't really miss much, least of all for what I do. It's funny, but for what I do,
2003 Server, and the dual Xeons are still adequate for about 90% of the stuff I do.

The big motivator was getting into this era, and Bluray, and, a very fast video card is nice...not that the 4670 is really that bad, but, it's not a dual gpu on one card, either.