Over many years I've run a kind of personal benchmark on every computer I've built.
It's a very complex spreadsheet of aircraft noise modelling done by the friend of a friend back in 1997.
For reference the first record was a Pentium 2 350MHz that took 8mins4secs to complete the calculations. (office 97, Windows NT)
Other points are a Duron 1.1GHz =70 secs ( Office 2000,XP Pro)
I haven't built a computer for years but just finished a budget build just for fun from parts from MM.
The previous record was my overclocked Athlon XP-M at 35 seconds ( Office 2k, XP Pro)
So I ran it on my new build, an E5200 at 3.0GHz which is the highest stable clock at standard voltages.
I know that the mitigating factors are a much heavier OS ( 7 H.P.) and Office (2010 Beta) and that a simple maths test will not showcase the improvements of a multi core processor BUT
I was gobsmacked when the test came in at 37seconds
Can anybody explain WTF!?!?!?!?!
It's a very complex spreadsheet of aircraft noise modelling done by the friend of a friend back in 1997.
For reference the first record was a Pentium 2 350MHz that took 8mins4secs to complete the calculations. (office 97, Windows NT)
Other points are a Duron 1.1GHz =70 secs ( Office 2000,XP Pro)
I haven't built a computer for years but just finished a budget build just for fun from parts from MM.
The previous record was my overclocked Athlon XP-M at 35 seconds ( Office 2k, XP Pro)
So I ran it on my new build, an E5200 at 3.0GHz which is the highest stable clock at standard voltages.
I know that the mitigating factors are a much heavier OS ( 7 H.P.) and Office (2010 Beta) and that a simple maths test will not showcase the improvements of a multi core processor BUT
I was gobsmacked when the test came in at 37seconds
Can anybody explain WTF!?!?!?!?!