Im getting recollections of you and illuz's little battle in his other 32m thread.
yh I better watchout once hes come off the naughty step
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Second attempt, shaved off 5 seconds
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Just thought I would have a go at beating 8pack just to see if I could. 4.018Ghz on cpu and NB, 2813mhz 9-11-9-25-121-1T and I hit 7m39.911s
Needs tweaking but I am sure I could shave a few seconds off... Not going to beat 8pack with that though.. a 40x100.45 needs to be replaced with a 39 x 102.7ish but the memory doesnt like running faster than 2820cl9 so its a no go from me.
Interesting comp though
Needs tweaking but I am sure I could shave a few seconds off... Not going to beat 8pack with that though.. a 40x100.45 needs to be replaced with a 39 x 102.7ish but the memory doesnt like running faster than 2820cl9 so its a no go from me.
Interesting comp though
Just thought I would have a go at beating 8pack just to see if I could. 4.018Ghz on cpu and NB, 2813mhz 9-11-9-25-121-1T and I hit 7m39.911s
Needs tweaking but I am sure I could shave a few seconds off... Not going to beat 8pack with that though.. a 40x100.45 needs to be replaced with a 39 x 102.7ish but the memory doesnt like running faster than 2820cl9 so its a no go from me.
Interesting comp though
What are the specs of your rig.
Just thought I would have a go at beating 8pack just to see if I could. 4.018Ghz on cpu and NB, 2813mhz 9-11-9-25-121-1T and I hit 7m39.911s
Needs tweaking but I am sure I could shave a few seconds off... Not going to beat 8pack with that though.. a 40x100.45 needs to be replaced with a 39 x 102.7ish but the memory doesnt like running faster than 2820cl9 so its a no go from me.
Interesting comp though
What memory kits are you using to get CL9 at 2800Mhz?
And what volts are you using on the ram ?
Since I am not entering I weill share the tips I used to use for getting the fastest superpi 32m times. This worked on x58 cpus and I don't think anything much has changed since so the theory should still be fine.
Tip 1. Run windows xp pro with sp3 or server 2003, not windows 7 or 8. Ideally lite or stripped verions (lite/stripped versions save about 7 secs from a 9min time)
Tip 2 Disable sound, lan and anything else you dont need in the bios
Tip 3 Run msconfig and disable all services not needed
Tip 4 Set colour schem to olive green and remove background
Tip 5 Turn HT OFF
Tip 6 Go to system properties, click on the Advanved Tab then advanced tab again. Set Processor scheduling to Background services. Set memory usage to System cache. Now under virtual memory click change. Create a custom size of Initial size 512 and a max of 512 on your c drive.
Tip 7 Open regedit. Navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Memory Management]. Select Large System Cache and make sure the volume is set to 1.
Tip 8 Run msconfig again. Go to boot.ini tab and click on advanced. Set maxmem to 600 and make sure pcilock is ticked.
Already all of the above should save you 20 to 25 secs from a 9 min time......
More tips to come soon........
Tip 1. Run windows xp pro with sp3 or server 2003, not windows 7 or 8. Ideally lite or stripped verions (lite/stripped versions save about 7 secs from a 9min time)
Tip 2 Disable sound, lan and anything else you dont need in the bios
Tip 3 Run msconfig and disable all services not needed
Tip 4 Set colour schem to olive green and remove background
Tip 5 Turn HT OFF
Tip 6 Go to system properties, click on the Advanved Tab then advanced tab again. Set Processor scheduling to Background services. Set memory usage to System cache. Now under virtual memory click change. Create a custom size of Initial size 512 and a max of 512 on your c drive.
Tip 7 Open regedit. Navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Memory Management]. Select Large System Cache and make sure the volume is set to 1.
Tip 8 Run msconfig again. Go to boot.ini tab and click on advanced. Set maxmem to 600 and make sure pcilock is ticked.
Already all of the above should save you 20 to 25 secs from a 9 min time......
More tips to come soon........
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Couldnt have helped much more if you tried eh! My issue is that i am on windows 8, sub that out for tiny xp and I am looking at about 7m30s or so.. itll then just be tweaking thatll find me those extra few seconds although a few of those tips only produce minute differences on todays hardware that may not even reflect on a run.
What is the normal memory volts for Haswell 1.5 or 1.65v
Found my memory stuff
CL / tRFC / tRCD / tREF and tRAS all contribute more than 1% to superpi timings.
CL and tREF used to be the biggest difference with them contributing 4% of your final result. Eg if you change CL by 10% (from 10 to 9 say) then your final time will improve by 10% x 4% = 0.4% if that make sense?
The others then will only make just over 0.1% improvement for a 10% change.
Obviously faster memory is the key as well but not if you have to slacken off timings especiaslly CL and tREF. Ffor example you could got from 2000 to 2100Mhz on your memory which is a 5% increase but lose all of that if you had to slacken all your timings.
That's it for now, good luck!
CL / tRFC / tRCD / tREF and tRAS all contribute more than 1% to superpi timings.
CL and tREF used to be the biggest difference with them contributing 4% of your final result. Eg if you change CL by 10% (from 10 to 9 say) then your final time will improve by 10% x 4% = 0.4% if that make sense?
The others then will only make just over 0.1% improvement for a 10% change.
Obviously faster memory is the key as well but not if you have to slacken off timings especiaslly CL and tREF. Ffor example you could got from 2000 to 2100Mhz on your memory which is a 5% increase but lose all of that if you had to slacken all your timings.
That's it for now, good luck!
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Well they all help! And you might be right with the newest technolkogy that some of my tips might not make any difference. It alwasy amazed me how background and colour scheme affected superpi though.
Those were the days when you were testing, rebooting, tweaking, testing hour after hour with notes of what worked and what didn't just to get another second off your time which might move you up a place on hwbot
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Spot on with what I was running earlier today.
I didn't have the nerve to go 1.7 but seems like it's the norm in the o/c community
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