Boxx Dual Opteron 240 (1.40ghz) Review
Omega65
Philadelphia, Pa
<a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10853" target=_blank>The Inq: <b>Boxx Dual Opteron 240 (1.40ghz) Review</b></a> (2003-08-05)
<i>I am by no means an enthusiast. I like fast machines, and I like to play games like Half Life and Starcraft, but am not willing to burn a hole in my week-old CPUs. I will however, attempt to convey a sense of the gaming potential that a Radeon 9800 Pro + Opteron 240 system holds. Of course, I’ve got some real-world tests, but they’re not as fun.
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SETI@Home:
I saved a single workunit and put it through various paces. Remember that SETI@Home is NOT multithreaded, so it was necessary to get the command-line client and start multiple instances with the same workunit to get useful results. All tests are obviously performed with the same workunit.
2 workunits running simultaneously on the 1.47 GHz Athlon: 11 hours, 19 minutes.
2 workunits threaded through the one 1.4 GHz Opteron: 7 hours, 54 minutes.
2 workunits on both 1.4 GHz Opterons: 3 hours, 48 minutes*.
1 workunit on the 1.47 GHz Athlon: 5 hours, 11 minutes.
1 workunit on the 1.4 GHz Opteron: 3 hours, 21 minutes
*since there were two separate processes running, one actually completed before the other. Both workunits completed within 3:48.</i>
<i>I am by no means an enthusiast. I like fast machines, and I like to play games like Half Life and Starcraft, but am not willing to burn a hole in my week-old CPUs. I will however, attempt to convey a sense of the gaming potential that a Radeon 9800 Pro + Opteron 240 system holds. Of course, I’ve got some real-world tests, but they’re not as fun.
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SETI@Home:
I saved a single workunit and put it through various paces. Remember that SETI@Home is NOT multithreaded, so it was necessary to get the command-line client and start multiple instances with the same workunit to get useful results. All tests are obviously performed with the same workunit.
2 workunits running simultaneously on the 1.47 GHz Athlon: 11 hours, 19 minutes.
2 workunits threaded through the one 1.4 GHz Opteron: 7 hours, 54 minutes.
2 workunits on both 1.4 GHz Opterons: 3 hours, 48 minutes*.
1 workunit on the 1.47 GHz Athlon: 5 hours, 11 minutes.
1 workunit on the 1.4 GHz Opteron: 3 hours, 21 minutes
*since there were two separate processes running, one actually completed before the other. Both workunits completed within 3:48.</i>
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They did it at 1.4
I suddenly feel small.
WOW.
My AMD Thunderbird 1.4GHz 266FSB did a WU in 5h, 12m
My AMD Athlon XP2000+ 1.67GHz 266FSB did a WU in 3h, 15m
My AMD Athlon XP2600+ 2.08GHz 333FSB does a WU in 2h, 31m
So for an AMD Opteron 1.4Ghz doing it in 3h 21m is extremely good.
Your still doing great.
3DMark2003 is a vid card benchmark. The CPU doesn't matter (much) and the Boxx system had a Radeon 9800
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BTW... I get ~4800 in 3dmark2003 w/the 9700 pro & 2 2500s @ 150x12 (1875MHz)...
//Edit...
Nevermind about that new computer part... I am NOT paying $500 for a mb just to be one of the first people with a dual Opteron system... I may be somewhat unstable, but I'm not totally insane (yet)