Benchmark Results for Crunching

[Anon_F]

My recent benchmark results are:
4038 Whetstone & 12952 Dhrystone. Are these good results??

 

[Adywebb]

It all depends on your system specs, but thats what I would expect for someone running 'tweaked' boinc

 

[TriplexDread]

A lot better than mine since I upgraded and tweaked

 

[Adywebb]

What are they then TD? - my X2 3800+ has gone from 1915/3554 to 3440/7621

When I say 'thats what I would expect' etc - I mean its obvious its been tweaked, I'm not commenting on the actual scores as such without knowing the specs

 

[Anon_F]

It all depends on your system specs, but thats what I would expect for someone running 'tweaked' boinc

AMD Athlon 64 3800+ CPU (Venic) 939\Asus A8N-E M/Board\1GB RAM(2x512MB)\250GB SATA HDD

 

[TriplexDread]

Last time I looked was when I placed my thread few days ago

Not marked em since then


https://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-2551597.php


"Not doin anything at all and restarted BOINC closed down MSN the works

Just tryed again

2136
3948 respectively"

 

[Adywebb]

Last time I looked was when I placed my thread few days ago

Not marked em since then


https://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-2551597.php


"Not doin anything at all and restarted BOINC closed down MSN the works

Just tryed again

2136
3948 respectively"

Thats about right for standard untweaked boinc on a X2 4200 - have you applied the tweak from post #61 HERE ?

Even if you have, do it again, make sure you exit boinc manager before applying it

 

[Adywebb]

AMD Athlon 64 3800+ CPU (Venic) 939\Asus A8N-E M/Board\1GB RAM(2x512MB)\250GB SATA HDD

Thats fine mate - the tweak seems to have a bigger effect on single core machines than dual cores for some reason....

 

[TriplexDread]

First time I did it i got

3874 and 6578

second time i got

3874 and 5972

hmmmmm

 

[Adywebb]

When you say first time/ second time do you mean you have just installed the tweak and run the benchmarks twice just now?

Remember - to get the best possible benchmark you should have no other processes running and not do anything, including moving your mouse until completed.

I would expect the second figure (Dhrystone) to be a bit better than that, something like 8K+, that being said, the new figures are a good improvement on the untweaked figure

 

[TriplexDread]

I ran it got first figures then realised i was running something so I stopped it running and started BM again with nothing else going

Figures were lower!

 

[Adywebb]

I don't think its going to get any better really without doing a completely clean install of boinc and the tweak.

The tweaked figures are still a big improvement, and to be honest it only really makes a difference if you come up against other machines running a tweak within your quorum - mostly you are going to get the lowest claimed score anyway, so I wouldn't worry about it and just enjoy the crunching

 

[TriplexDread]

Waht do you mean by the lowest claimed score m8?

 

[Adywebb]

Well say you claim 150 credit for a result, and the other 2 results in the quorum only claim around 70 in credit, then you are only going to get 70, so it matters not that the tweaked benchmark has given you a high credit claim.

It only comes into play if you come up against another 2 machines with either a very high CPU rating, or they are tweaked as well

 

[TriplexDread]

Ahhh right.


Well i'm sure there are hundreds of machines out there with exactly the same spec as I have

Oh well at least the tweak has actully improved performance quite marginally

 

[Adywebb]

Well i'm sure there are hundreds of machines out there with exactly the same spec as I have

You would be surprised - the vast majority of machines in use for crunching tend to be pretty old and low spec - hence 99% of the time the credit will be significantly lower than that which you claimed

 

[TriplexDread]

Cheers for the explanation dude.

Tell you what if I had the cash I would seriously consider setting up a whole server to crunch.

But as they say " you gotta be in it to win it"