Fastest Computer @ AMD Users?

[markdeacon]

Who has the most powerful/fastest computer here at AMD Users?

Little Contest :)

Ill start of with my 2 lol (its far from the best here but to get the ball rolling)

PC One:
AMD Athlon 2800+
1gig DDR 3200 RAM
80gb SATA + 80gb IDE
3 Optical Drives
ATI Radeon 9500

PC Two:
AMD Athlon 3200+ 64bit
512mb 3200 DDR RAM
80gb SATA
1 Optical Drive
Nvidia 6100

PC Three:
Intel Celeron 500mhz :-(
192mb SDRAM :-(
20gb IDE LOL :)
1 Optical Drive
Nvidia Ge-force 2 MX400 (or something lol)

[NeoGen]

Those two are enough to put mine out of the contest... :roll:

[markdeacon]

Post them anyway might make me laugh!

edit:

added my third pc u might beat that one if you don't then Ur joking cause you wouldn't have stats like the ones you do lol

[NeoGen]

Ok... I think can at least beat that one :lol:

AMD Athlon XP 2000+
512 Megs DDR RAM
60gb IDE
2 Optical Drives
GeForce4 4400

[AMD-USR_JL]

I think someone here prolly has a quad-core or a fx-60, but i think until they post mine will be the fastest.

AMD 64 X2 4800+
1024MB of DDR-SDRAM@214Mhz
1x233GB hdd
1x189GB hdd
I think they are SATA
1 8x/24x/52x CD/RW DVD/RW
1 24x/52x CD/RW
ATI Radeon 9600

[mitro]

I'm not sure, but I think my one 3800 X2 is about the fastest around here running at 2.8GHz 24/7. It can do 2.9GHz stable, but I'm just not comfortable with the voltages required to do that. my other 3800 X2 runs 2.7GHz, and my Opteron 175 (the most expensive of the 3, go figure) is happy at 2.6GHz.

[markdeacon]

one word for u guys:

HARDCORE

[mitro]

Just so ya don't think I'm blowin' smoke: :D

http://www.dualcoreamd.com/mitro28.gif

[markdeacon]

i belive u!

[Jeff]

I have 3700+ 64bit

[Beerknurd]

I have a dual core P4 2.8 with 1 gig of ram.

That's about it.... :?

[Jeff]

I want a dual core so bad!!! :(

[markdeacon]

same here but that means i would need a new MB :(

if only they ever had 1 socket or they invent a new one that is so fast that they will never need to make a new one.

Then you can buy new cpu's and not have to get the MB to go with it!

[BlackAdder]

Well mine is no where near the fastest but here are my main computer's specs...
XP3200 CPU
1.5 Gig Corsair PC4000 ram
2-80 gig WD J model HD's
Asus A7N8X-E Motherboard
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro AGP video card
Antec Neo 480 watt active PFC power supply
Lite On 4x DVD burner
Lite On 48x CD burner
Thermaltake shielded IDE cabling
Thermaltake Xaser 3 blue case full tower
Cooler Master Aqua Gate Mini CPU water cooler (large radiator)
Linksys BEFSX41 Router
Motorola Surfboard SB5100 Cable modem
Gigabit on board ethernet
Tripplite 1000 watt battery back up
Windows XP Pro
This computer runs cool,fast and quite.
:D

[NVM]

I have a dual core P4 2.8 with 1 gig of ram.

That's about it.... :?

dual core or dual cpu?

[Beerknurd]

dual core, I wish it was a dual cpu....

[Strongbow]

My little thing crunches along nicely but is no competition with the next model up from FSC called the Celsius V830 with two way DC Opteron/285s in it or Mitro's monster.

I haven't overclocked it yet, could do with some advice on whether it is possible or not!!!


But the spec is as follows...

Fujitsu Siemens Computers Celsius v810

Processor
Model : 2x AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 248
Speed : 2.19GHz
Internal Data Cache : 64kB Synchronous, Write-Back, 2-way set, 64 byte line size
L2 On-board Cache : 1MB ECC Synchronous, Write-Back, 16-way set, 64 byte line size

Mainboard
Bus(es) : AGP PCI IMB USB FireWire/1394 i2c/SMBus
MP Support : 2 Processor(s)
MP APIC : Yes
NUMA Support : 2 Node(s)
System BIOS : Phoenix Technologies Ltd. 1.07.1692
System : FUJITSU SIEMENS CELSIUS V810
Mainboard : Tyan Computer Corporation D1692
Total Memory : 2GB ECC DDR-SDRAM Registered

Chipset 1
Model : Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64 / Opteron HyperTransport Technology Configuration
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 796MHz (1592MHz data rate)
Total Memory : 1GB ECC DDR-SDRAM Registered
Memory Bus Speed : 2x 156MHz (312MHz data rate)

Chipset 2
Model : Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64 / Opteron HyperTransport Technology Configuration
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 796MHz (1592MHz data rate)
Total Memory : 1GB ECC DDR-SDRAM Registered
Memory Bus Speed : 2x 156MHz (312MHz data rate)

Chipset 3
Model : Tyan Computer AMD-8151 AGP Device (System Controller)
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 597MHz (1194MHz data rate)

[Keith75]

Dual cores use the same 939 pin MB as the single core A64s.

Keith

[Ototero]

I have :

AMD 64 3000+
1 gig ram
2*120 gig hd
2 dvd rw (that's 2 writers :))

AMD M2400+
256 ram

AMD M2200+
512 ram

2 @ AMD 2400+
512 ram in each

[AMD-USR_JL]

I'm not sure, but I think my one 3800 X2 is about the fastest around here running at 2.8GHz 24/7.
Wow, mitro! 2.8Ghz is SwEEtNeSS! How did you oc it that high? I can only get my 4800 up to about 2.57Ghz, any higher and i get the "blue screen of death." I am running sp1, so do you think that might have something to do with it?

[Strongbow]

I'm allowed to say this as it has been widely published by the Inquirer and other news sources...

So you may know that the Opteron DP256 is coming out next month at 3.0GHz/1MB L2 - still a single core but I bet it screams! If you overclock these you might be able to get past 4GHz! (probably need the processor in the frozen peas section of your fridge mind you)

DP285 and 885 with 2.6GHz/2x1MB L2 coming out at the same time as well!

[NeoGen]

There are rumours that AMD quad cores will be on demonstration later this year... hopefully starting to be sold by the end of the year, or start of 2007?
Now that's gonna be some record-breaking machines! :D

I think it would be cool that they were labelled "X4" but maybe AMD will give them some other fancier name. :roll:

[mitro]

I'm not sure, but I think my one 3800 X2 is about the fastest around here running at 2.8GHz 24/7.
Wow, mitro! 2.8Ghz is SwEEtNeSS! How did you oc it that high? I can only get my 4800 up to about 2.57Ghz, any higher and i get the "blue screen of death." I am running sp1, so do you think that might have something to do with it?
Three words on how:

LUCK, LUCK, AND LUCK

(and maybe a little basic knowledge)

You can get your 4800 up to 2.57 at what voltage? The key is really the cooling, especially with a dual core. A good heastsink (the Scythe Ninja, Thermaltake Big Typhoon, etc.) or decent watercoolinghelp handle the added volts needed to get up in the 2.7+ range. There ARE some tricks, but I have keep some secrets, don't I? :lol:

[Strongbow]

I think we should run a climate change experiment over mitro's house!

[NeoGen]

Mitro... do they still lock the multipliers on the cpu's or can one raise them? I remember the time when it was unlocked, and I remember that they started locking them and it was sometimes difficult, other times impossible to unlock it.
I think that would help alot for overclocking if it is possible. :)

[mitro]

Multipliers are unlocked downwards, meaning if your processor has a 10x multi then you can set it to 10 or anything less. However, to make up for the lack of higher multipliers, you can make use of the memory dividers.

For example:

You have a 3200+ A64 (2GHz with a 10x multiplier) and you want to overclock it to 2.4GHz but your memory may not be able to exceed its rated PC3200 speeds (200MHz).

You set your HTT (essentially what we used to refer to as FSB) to 240 while leaving your multi at 10X. Then in the memory settings you set the divider to 5/6 (also referred to as 166). this allows the memory to run at 5/6 of the HTT speed.

240 x 5/6 = 200MHz

So, essentially you are tricking your processor to use a higher multi. There is also generally atleast one more divider (133 atleast, motherboard dependant).

[mitro]

I think we should run a climate change experiment over mitro's house!

C'mon over :lol:

[Strongbow]

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[Lagu]

Hi

Nice photo.

Lagu :D :D :D :D

[mitro]

LOL My dual cores neither consume that much power NOR produce that much heat. :D However the picture is remarkably accurate in where the light source would be. :lol:

[AMD-USR_JL]

Three words on how:

LUCK, LUCK, AND LUCK

(and maybe a little basic knowledge)

You can get your 4800 up to 2.57 at what voltage? The key is really the cooling, especially with a dual core. A good heastsink (the Scythe Ninja, Thermaltake Big Typhoon, etc.) or decent watercoolinghelp handle the added volts needed to get up in the 2.7+ range. There ARE some tricks, but I have keep some secrets, don't I? :lol:

I have my voltage set to auto on my mobo. It fluxuates between 1.360 and 1.376. I only have the retail AMD heatsink/fan. I did install several case fans and it keeps my processor down to 54C in load.

I was just wondering if the "blue screen of death" that i get is maybe due to SP1 or if it is my mobo saying that it is not stable. In the Blue screen of death windows says something like it shut down because something wasn't less than or equal to something, so it shuts down to protect my pc.
Gee, thanks windows! :shock:
Wish it wouldn't do that.
So do you think this might be an issue that is fixed in sp2?

[mitro]

nope... thats not due to SP1. Thats what happens when the computer becomes unstable from too high of an OC/to low voltage. 2.57GHz is very good at that low of a voltage. In comparison, my good 3800 will do about 2.6-2.65 on that voltage. You need more volts... BUT you need better cooling for that. I'd bet with adequate cooling you should be able to do 2.7 with 1.45-1.5v.

The nice thing about all of us here is that since we do DC we will find out very shortly if our computers are unstable since we have them under full load most or part of the time. (However you should always test your overclocks with a stress program like Prime95 (SP2004) before resuming crunching)

[BlackAdder]

HEE HEE I think the light source is actually the local nuclear reactors working overtime just to feed Mitro's X2.....and mine as soon as I can afford one. :D

[NeoGen]

I remember several years ago of seeing a kind of joke study about how new cpu temps were increasing year after year, as well as power required.
In the end the conclusion was that in 50 years, computers would need small power plants of their own to work and would reach temperatures of hundreds of degrees celsius. :lol: :lol:

[Nflight]

I wasn't going to say anything and let Mitro have his day on top of the world but I am now here to pronouce my devotion to my systems. I may not have the super duper OC system like Mr. Midwest, but I have been at the top of the Simap top Hosts for some time, (rated #5 out of 9800) and pretty high in Predictor Hosts as well (Rated #55 out of over 112,000 hosts).

Predictor Machine =
AMD 3500+
2.21 GIG Hz
2 GIG Ram
186 Gig HDD running Stripe @ 10,000 rpm
Nvidia PCI 16x
(avg WU points per day 352)

SIMAP Machine =
AMD 4200+
2.21 Gig Hz
1 Gig Ram
149 Gig HDD Running Stripe @ 10,000 rpm
Nvidia PCI Express 16x
(avg WU Points per day 654)

With all my power I can reach further with the 4200+ if I would add 1 more gig of RAM, with that I could get more out of the 4200 machine and be on top of the power Heap!

I do want to add that I have found that the OS most desired to get the most out of any machine seems to be the Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. With this in mind let me tell you if you purchase one issue of this OS it costs US $500.oo. [ I can prove this to you by letting you look at this persons stats on Predictor - mdhurst - http://predictor.scripps.edu/top_hosts.php ] those are real stats.

Your Comments

[Lagu]

Nflight

You have some great computers and HDD´s running at 10.000 rpm/min. It is more than we other have. I think most common HDD´s are running at 7.000 rpm/min.

I wounder if there is any great difference between them in performance?
And how high is the loud from your HDD´s and are they hot when you run any project?

Lagu ;)

[Nflight]

Actually Lagu the Noise of the HDD 's is quite noticeable. They are noisy, but then you have the efficiency of speed in access times with the quicker rpm's or you get slower access times with the slower rpms.

My one friend has 15,000 rpm drives and that thing screams in access times, and with those awesome drives comes a device that has a dampening system built into to hold the machine from twisting when the HDD spool up.

The 3500+ machine also has 8 fans running all the time, where the 4200+ only has two fans a much quieter machine.

[PcManiac]

I guess I'll jump in here as well...

I am running:
Home:
A64 3700+ @ 2.53 ghz
1 GB Corsair
120gb Seagate ... SATA on the way someday or another
eVGA 6600GT 550mhz core, 1100mhz memory
I am running Win XP x64 and Fedora Core 4 64bit
for cooling, I got 2x 80mm fans, and 1 120mm
Zalman HSF (Idles at 30 C ( I am not sure about load))

my next upgrade will be mirrored HDs

[spikey_richie]

AMD64 3400+ running at 2.49hgz
1gb Corsair PC3200 DDR RAM (now OCZ Gold)
180gb Seagate Barracuda SATA HDD
Thermaltake BigWater SE water cooling
6800LE AGP GFX card (with water block)
Creative Audigy2 ZS sound card
19" 930BF Samsung TFT

---

Asus S-presso media centre
Intel P4HT 3ghz
1gb PC3200 DDR RAM
80gb Maxtor SATA HDD

[swhite4784]

AMD 2.5ghz 1gig ram
AMD 2.5ghz 1gig ram
Intel 2.6ghz 1gig ram

borg machines

2.8 dual xeon HT 2.5gig ram
3.0 xeon HT 1.5gig ram
lol servers at work!

[moving fusion]

I suppose I better tell you all what ive got:

1 - 4*Xeon 3.16Ghz, 1Mb Cache, 4Gb RAM
1 - 2*Xeon 3.00Ghz, 2Mb Cache, 8Gb RAM
1 - 2*Xeon 3.00Ghz EMT64, 1Mb Cache 1Gb RAM
1 - 1P4 3Ghz dual core, 1Gb RAM

But my personal PC is a AMD 2600XP which will soon be 64 x2 or whatever…

None of the above kit runs all the time – as and when I can get away with it ;)

Oh and all run Linux

I would be interested to know what Miltman25 runs???

Sam

[Ototero]

Good job you had an AMD in there Sam :lol: :lol:

That is some crunching power :shock:

[Frederic Brillouet]

I'm running:

Amd Athlon64 3000+ S754
2x512 Mb PC3200 DDR RAM (Twinmos dualkit)
160 Gb Western Digital HDD
ATI RADEON 9800 Pro
1 DVD-ROM
1 DVD-writer
350W Powersupply

By the way guys, do you think I should upgrade my powersupply to 400-500W or so? I'm also thinking of installing an extra 512 Mb Twinmos PC3200 stick. Do you think that that will improve my computer performance?

[NeoGen]

From what I've heard, memory sticks should be installed in pairs to take advantage of the dual channel feature I think. Something like accessing information on both sticks at a time.
It might help to have >1Gb of RAM, for example if you're running BBC, or the Seasonal Attribution project, but only for your own use. It'll not speed the crunching any further. It'll just make you have more free RAM for your own applications and games while the projects are running.

And about the power supply... only if you're planning to also add one of those newer graphics cards, or some other things that take up alot of juice.

[Frederic Brillouet]

Thanks NeoGen. I won't be changing my powersupply then because my "trusty" 9800 pro hasn't failed me yet. I already have 2 sticks of memory, but that other empty socket is desperately calling for an extra 512 Mb stick :D

[Empty_5oul]

the whole point of dual channel paired sticks is to use them both. They are specifically put together.

i imagine your pushing your Powersupply at the moment.

do you only have one more slot for your ram? if you get some make sure it is the same size and speed if possible or they won't work together as well as they could.

[Electabots]

I guess I outta post my system specs for referance(?) if for anything...

2x AMD Opteron 244(about to experiment with overclocking)
1gig DDR 3200 RAM
74gig sata + 160gig sata
1 dvd burner
2x nvidia geforce 6600 256mb

[Steve Lux]

From the front page of the BOINC web site:

April 13, 2006
According to various statistics sites, over one million computers have now contributed processing power to BOINC projects. We're currently achieving a sustained processing rate of over 400 TeraFLOPS - the world's most powerful supercomputer by a wide margin. Congratulations and thanks to everyone!

(Just for reference; IBM's BlueGene-L, the worlds fastest supercomputer for 2005 puts out 280.6 TeraFLOPS.)

Thought you might want to know.

[Steve Lux]

My system:

8 fingers
2 opposing thumbs
10 toes of various sizes

Rather than use binary, I tend to calculate in base 10 - it gives me an advantage. There is a slight delay when I have to take off my shoes though. I've tried virtual toe counting but it's never as accurate or as fast as the real thing.

[Nflight]

I should now update after a little schooling via Mitro's OC world of FUN.

The 3500+ machine runs basically still stock but a little over the norm as the speed is near 2.37 Gig. The 4200+ is tweaked towards 2.5Gig, no more mister nice guy. Both are still air cooled. and very stable.

[Frederic Brillouet]

My system is now continuously oc'ed at 2200 MHz (stock 2000). When I try going to 2250 MHz it freezes. I tried upping the voltage but nothing happens. Can anyone help?

[AMD-USR_JL]

I think it freezes when it isn't stable. I remember mine would either freeze or get the Blue Screen of Death when i had overclocked it too much.