X2 to me and same to you.

[PCJedi]

Hi guys,
I have been playing around for some time and the 4200 is an amazing processor. I spent a couple of days trying to get it working with various combination and testing its performance across applications. Interesting finds, but since i am posting this in the OC forum, would like to state that its a fabulous overclocker. It has managed 2.68 on air. This is a prime stable figure. Non prime it has gone easily to 2.75 without a beep. but prime fails in 19 minutes or so. The RAM is surely a limiting factor, since i don't have the inclination to remove my pdp from my sandy at the moment.
I have spent a lot of time benchmarking it across application. mostly real-world rather than synthetic for a specific system design. It was fun piting a dual opteron v/s a x2 v/s a sandy v/s a venice 0517. Ofcourse i had only two quadro's so required a lot of shuffling. for the max and maya figures.

 

[Aditya]

Nice job there m8.

Hows the performance in games? Better than your old proccy?

 

[Freaky]

Whoa !!! Gr8 results m8. Wish I had the resources to burn on a X2.

 

[PCJedi]

GF- The Sandy and the Venice still rule the gaming scenario, if i keep the 7800 as the common card. The X2 does not seem to offer any advantage on gaming.

 

[Freaky]

That's a known fact, ain't it ? Did u try Q3 which is supposed to be the only Multi-Threaded game available, Jedi ?

 

[zhopudey]

Ofcourse i had only two quadro's

What do you mean 'only two quadros' ???

Great results BTW. :hap2:

 

[Aditya]

But what is better Jedi?

Was the X2 a Disadvantage?

 

[Freaky]

But what is better Jedi?
Was the X2 a Disadvantage?

Do u mean underperform ? I think Jedi meant that the Venice was better coz' of the price performance ratio. But disadvantage, hmmm.... something to think abt.

 

[PCJedi]

I find gaming speeds are directly proportional to clock speed- graphic card remaining constant- My SD and Venice run at 2.7 and games don't use Dual core's hence the Venice and SD are faster and cheaper. The SD till now is about 5 % faster then the venice at same clock speeds in Quake3 and 3DMarks05. You will not find the X2 to give you any performance increaments compared to these except in Video/imaging and 3D Applications - That too in 3D Rendering since viewports and modelling is totally graphic card dependent. The Quadro beats the 7800GTX by atleast 8 to 10 times. in Max and PRO-E.

Freaky: Why the old A8N-E bios. any reason

 

[Anish]

Hmm, great scores there mate ! Also, do post Q3 scores...

 

[zhopudey]

The Quadro beats the 7800GTX by atleast 8 to 10 times. in Max and PRO-E.

Wow... Which quadro do you have? And are you using maxtreme?

And how much does the x2 improve in rendering time?

 

[PCJedi]

I have a couple of 4400's and yes using maxtreme, speeds up modelling windows. As for rendering time, its quite similar to a dual opteron speed up - around 60 to 70% compared to single.

As for Q3 Score's i will have to change to the 7800GTX, since on the quadro, i don't expect any phenomenol Q3 scores. will do that in a day or so.

 

[JediMaster]

Hi guys,
I have been playing around for some time and the 4200 is an amazing processor. I spent a couple of days trying to get it working with various combination and testing its performance across applications. Interesting finds, but since i am posting this in the OC forum, would like to state that its a fabulous overclocker. It has managed 2.68 on air. This is a prime stable figure. Non prime it has gone easily to 2.75 without a beep. but prime fails in 19 minutes or so. The RAM is surely a limiting factor, since i don't have the inclination to remove my pdp from my sandy at the moment.

Looks Pretty Good :thumb: !
Will sure be interesting to compare benchies with a big Java application, SuperPi... !

 

[Darklord]

Great Going there...kep it up.

 

[Freaky]

Freaky: Why the old A8N-E bios. any reason

Sorry m8. Forgot to update my siggy:ashamed:

 

[PCJedi]

That's a known fact, ain't it ? Did u try Q3 which is supposed to be the only Multi-Threaded game available, Jedi ?

Tried Quake3 and it did not make any difference at all. The FPS were what i would expect with the Single 4200 - needless to say the SD 3700 is still faster - at 2.7

There are switches which allow SMP, turns out they make the game slower.

So. Games not ready for dual cores yet.

 

[Chaos]

Tried Quake3 and it did not make any difference at all. The FPS were what i would expect with the Single 4200 - needless to say the SD 3700 is still faster - at 2.7

There are switches which allow SMP, turns out they make the game slower.

So. Games not ready for dual cores yet.

What version of Q3 did you use? Anything beyond 1.16 has hosed up SMP.

 

[PCJedi]

checked and updated the version of Doom3 - 1.3.1302. This is the latest update and no difference. same as above.

 

[Chaos]

checked and updated the version of Doom3 - 1.3.1302. This is the latest update and no difference. same as above.

Doom 3 doesnt support SMP. Its only Q3 version 1.16 and below that did support SMP. Not aware of any other game that did.

 

[PCJedi]

Many apologies..i am using doom3, i don't know how i managed to get confused. Will give Q3 a shot. Many Many apologies again. Will start final round of testing tomorrow.