Particle Fury

[avalanche83]

Here is a little system bench that is mainly dependant on memory. You can download it here (http://www.majorgeeks.com/Particle_Fury_d158.html). Once you have it downloaded run the .exe.

Once the program is running. Hit the "N" key for benchmark.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/avalanche83/particlefury.jpg


Then post a screen shot or just post results using the peak Kp/sec.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/avalanche83/particlebench.jpg

[avalanche83]

BTW, that second one is what I'm getting. hehe

[dicecca112]

hmm good way to compare p4s vs a64s. I may have to stop folding after class (QMDS eat 75% of my memory) and post some screenies

[avalanche83]

Ya. I upped the cpu 700MHz and it only kicked it up 200 Kp/s. I upped the ram 80MHz and it kicked it up 600 Kp/s.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Is it a video card benchmark that's dependent on VRAM more than GPU?

For example, a Radeon 9600 SE would lose to a Radeon 9000 Pro?

[avalanche83]

No, the resulting score is in Kp/s. Which is cpu and ram. I just overclocked the video card and the FPS was lower than stock.

[dicecca112]

Gotta love DDR2

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/dicecca112/untitled.jpg

[avalanche83]

OMG, what is your ram at?

[dicecca112]

fsb is 245, bus speed is 981, you also have to remember that my cpu has a 2mb cache

[David Coleman]

3677

Tccd @ 2-2-2-6 @ Ddr400

[avalanche83]

I need some cpu-z screenie's guys.

[dicecca112]

you got it in a few minutes
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/dicecca112/screenie.jpg

[CanadianTSi]

4243 was my max, ram only at 225mhz...

[avalanche83]

I could imagine that ram at 300MHz. You would probably hit 5000 easy.

[RJARRRPCGP]

No, the resulting score is in Kp/s. Which is cpu and ram. I just overclocked the video card and the FPS was lower than stock.

So it's software 3D rendering?

[avalanche83]

Ya. It's OpenGL based.

[El<(')>Maxi]

Daily rig. This is definately more fun to watch than 32mb Super PI ;)

2.52Ghz 280x9 TCCD

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/canny/Particle.jpg

[El<(')>Maxi]

Just noticed I'm at the exact same settings in your sig avalanche, wtf? You wouldn't think 1mb cache can make that big of a difference.

[speed bump]

Maxi is that a s939 setup or s754 becuase his is s754.

Also it might depend on how long you wait for a max FPS.

[El<(')>Maxi]

Yes I'm on 939 here, I missed that he was on S754, my bad.

This NF3 is a POS too. Very unstable and won't boot my BH-5, or the 4000 at stock BIOS settings for that matter :shrug:

[avalanche83]

Just noticed I'm at the exact same settings in your sig avalanche, wtf? You wouldn't think 1mb cache can make that big of a difference.
lol. nope. Great to see people testing it out though :).

[Gautam]

This is an Intel benchmark all right...stock P4 650...not good when a school computer is beating out some of the quicker oced systems lol. Sucks about the NF3 Maxi, means I probably will never get to call a 939 my own.

http://home.comcast.net/~gautamb/pf.JPG

[El<(')>Maxi]

Haha benching on a UMI box lol :D

What's the mhz on the P4 Gautam? Actually this board isn't half bad, I might have exagerated the unstable part a bit although it does undervolt the CPU big time. I set 1.55 in BIOS and it's 1.425 in Windows :rolleyes: HTT tops out at 340Mhz so it's not too bad I guess, just wish I could run some BH-5. I ordered some Geil One today so we'll see if it can do 300 on this thing.

[avalanche83]

I am still waiting on my DFI. I have a Newark 3700 that has been sitting here for a month and a half, because 1.) I am half way around they world, and 2.) The one I just got, got scratched so I am waiting on a new one in the mail (maybe a week and a half). The one I had before posted with the Ballistix so I know it's compatible with that.

[avalanche83]

Daily rig. This is definately more fun to watch than 32mb Super PI ;)Hey 24hr. particle fury stable :D.
I wonder how well of a burn in tool this could be?
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/avalanche83/100.jpg

This is an Intel benchmark all right...stock P4 650...not good when a school computer is beating out some of the quicker oced systems lol.Hey, we can't have Intel's killing AMD's in benches now. j/k :).

[Gautam]

3.4 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache, don't know anything about the ram...other than that I have 2 gigs of it here. The HTT sounds nice, but without BH5 I'm lost. :-/ Looks good for a daily rig though.

[El<(')>Maxi]

Hey, we can't have Intel's killing AMD's in benches now. j/k :).

Not after I fire up the FX ;)

[RJARRRPCGP]

It appears that it don't take advantage of video cards. Thus, this would be like running 3D on an old school 2D 2 MB video card!

[El<(')>Maxi]

Just tried this on a 3800 and it runs on both cores, but it freaks out. 2.25Ghz was getting around 3800kp when set to run on single core.

[theELVISCERATOR]

4456 on a northie

[dicecca112]

still waiting for that FX score Maxi

My latest
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/dicecca112/owned.jpg

[Jakalwarrior]

It dont like my AMD much.
This is with 270x10 1:1 and some bios that gives me crap ram scores with 1:1 divider for some unknown reason (compared to previous bios, which was unstable but 7500 in sandra instead of 6900).

http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pictures/oic0/Temp%20Pics/PF.JPG

[dicecca112]

whoops broke my last score again will someone please challenege me?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/dicecca112/latest.jpg

[El<(')>Maxi]

I'll be setting something new up either Friday or Sunday. I'll have an answer then :D

[El<(')>Maxi]

Here you go dicecca :)

3.57Ghz 255x14

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/canny/PF5538-3.jpg

Btw guys I heard someone's gonna post a very fat score here pretty quick, and it's not done on AMD ;)

[dicecca112]

I'll be waiting although seeing X2s don't run right on this, and your 57 is pretty high, but we'll see. If I have to bump this over 4ghz I will.

[d]g[ts]

My X2 seems to be working fine, but with the lack of good cooling it only produces meager results. 4523 peak :shrug: http://img447.imageshack.us/img447/4124/fury6ta.jpg

[avalanche83]

What is your memory at d]g[ts?

[d]g[ts]

300 :) 2.5-3-3-6

[avalanche83]

shew. Look at Maxi's fountain. It is blowing out the roof :D.

[Hamm3r]

P4 630 @ 3.75Ghz
1Gb OCz PC3200Platinum rev2 @ 250Mhz 2,5,3,3,8
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b87/Hmr01/bench1.jpg

[avalanche83]

Hamm3r. What does cpu-z show the memory as. Isn't P4's quad pumped?

[dicecca112]

av you gotta realize that his memory is DDR mine is DDR2, when I saw his scores, I said to myself those are low, and then I realized hey its DDR

[Hamm3r]

Yes I still have DDR memory and mobo with 865PE chipset, running at DDR500 in dual channel.
No money to go DDR2 and PCIExpress.

[avalanche83]

Even though it is DDR500 isn't it at 1GHz because of the quad pump. Or does the P4 DDR2 user pump there dividers super high?

[dicecca112]

I think its more related to memory bandwidth, that DDR2 runs at a high bandwidth. or that the p4s were created for DDR2 and then made so that it work with DDR, at some performance loss and that is whatwer are seeing.

[El<(')>Maxi]

The thing I find funny about this bench is the writer didn't even bother to place an icon on the .exe

Hey Ross, hurry up man ;)

[dicecca112]

yeah ross hurry up so I have an excuse to overclock this chip some more, and beat your score :)

[El<(')>Maxi]

Well if he ever does post it I don't think anyone will be able to catch him, not without a supercooled Prescott or Dothan.

[dicecca112]

have you seen fishys Dual Core? That fits the bill, I bet I could get him to run it and post it.

[El<(')>Maxi]

This doesn't work on dual core, at least not AMD. I don't know how d]g[ts got it working other than setting affinity to one core. Maybe PD is different but I doubt it.

[d]g[ts]

http://img487.imageshack.us/img487/8892/furynoaffinity9yb.jpg
as ya can see Affinity it wasnt set to either CPU. I thought it could have been the /usepmtimer boot INI switch, but after rebooting i saw that wasnt the issue either As it worked fine with or without the switch. :shrug:

[El<(')>Maxi]

Hmm, thats interesting for sure. I tried this on a 3800 and the test screen jumps all over the place and has very low kps even though it is using both cores. I guess your is better than mine ;)

[dicecca112]

well this 630 is leaving soon, so I think I may have to up the FSB and have this thing hit 4.0+, and then run this. Coming some time this week

[Elif Tymes]

My Dothan 2.1 w/DDR2 533 in my lappy gets a fairly consisten 3.4K-3.5K

[El<(')>Maxi]

More Mhz on FX

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/canny/PF5719.jpg

[El<(')>Maxi]

g[ts']I thought it could have been the /usepmtimer boot INI switch, but after rebooting i saw that wasnt the issue either

What does this do d]g[ts?

[d]g[ts]

Adding /usepmtimer helped me stabilize, and also let PCmark 05 run properly. The stablize part i cannot confirm, but without this switch i couldnt run pcmark 05. and before i added it, i would just randomly crash. It was just something i saw noted about X2's around the net and decied to try. I made 2 boot INI files, one with this switych and 1 without. to test whether it helpes here and there, but fury ran fine both ways.

[El<(')>Maxi]

Inspiron 6000 - 2Ghz Dothan

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/canny/PF3371.jpg

[dicecca112]

hmm that didn't do as well as I thought it would. Might have to fire this up with the new 820.

[dicecca112]

nobody is gonna break this

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-11/1104824/kip.JPG

[El<(')>Maxi]

Break what?

[dicecca112]

a score of 8032

[El<(')>Maxi]

Thats the peak, the real number is the Avg ;)

[d]g[ts]

Then post a screen shot or just post results using the peak Kp/sec.


Hate to be bearer of bad news maxi, but avalanche is looking for peak numbers. However i find dicecca112's score a little strange since the peak almost doubles the AVG. score. not sure how that happened, but does seem a tad strange.

[dicecca112]

it would jump every so often to that rate, and was still climbing when I stopped it. Weird indeed.

[El<(')>Maxi]

It has to be a bug. This app acts crazy on my 3800, and minimizing the window half the time results in a program crash on every system for me. Thats why I was thinking the Avg would be a better number to go by.

[d]g[ts]

It has to be a bug. This app acts crazy on my 3800, and minimizing the window half the time results in a program crash on every system for me. Thats why I was thinking the Avg would be a better number to go by.I have replicated the crashing on minimise, but not the wierdess yet :shrug: however i do agree that the Avereage Kp/s should be used. But That would be avalanches call.


dicecca112: how high can ya get the average on that, and were ya doing anything else in the backround that could possibly produce that spike? or could this be from how its reacting to your particular system being that yours is the only dual core intel that we have seen results from.

[dicecca112]

well I let it run for about 15minutes, with absolutely nothing running in the background. The only other thing I was doing was hitting print screen everytime it scaled higher. and I don't agree on the AVG thing. That's like saying we should take the avg 3dmark score. High is better no matter what but yes it is avs call

[Gautam]

well I let it run for about 15minutes, with absolutely nothing running in the background. The only other thing I was doing was hitting print screen everytime it scaled higher. and I don't agree on the AVG thing. That's like saying we should take the avg 3dmark score. High is better no matter what but yes it is avs call
You don't honestly believe that that peak score truly reflects your system's performance, do you? The answer, hopefully is no, in which case, yes, the result means nothing and shouldn't be considered.

And yes, 3DMarks are an average...the average FPS along with certain weight given to different tests, calculated from averages, not from peaks.

[avalanche83]

Looks like 3 votes for avg. so avg. it is.

I have been gone for a minute because I have mailed my pc back to the states. I am internet cafe'ing for now. So hopefully I can get back to overclocking these things in a couple of weeks.