i apologize to ripley for blowing a gasket. took me a couple days to fix the leak. re: *nix, if im not mistaken, the server side for AH2 runs on one, and i think we get our updates in tar.gz or .bz2, not sure. btw, somewhere near "real world applications," is i think where it got murky for me, since i don't "get" what your definition of it is. afaik, real world applications today use sse, sse2, sse3, sse4 and x86_64/Intel64 instruction sets, so we could use a more relevant benchmark instead of superpi(which uses less than 5% of your cpu core die to perform it). also, since you have a dual core and me a quaddie, i suggest we stick to a single threaded app to calculate pi. use y-cruncher(in single threaded test) for windows, or compile gmp-chudnovsky.c with gcc. i have a feeling linux will run faster in computing pi. feel free to post your results so we can compare. we can evaluate core-for-core performance at 3.2GHz, 2GHz uncore freq(or cpu-nb freq) and ddr3-1066 7-7-7-16. it may be a tad difficult to have the exact same memory specs but the closer we get the better. having different peripheral system hardware will skew our core-for-core comparison results, but hopefully should give us reliable data.
my 'puters been on the floor a while now and the little time off i had prior to this labor day weekend allowed me to do a little work. it is as of yet unfinished. the custom pcie bracket im making out of sheet metal is still in the garage.
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also, in case y'all havent heard the news... more good things are coming our way 1Q 2010..
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.. and now overclocked(ES is unlocked, but retail will be locked)
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it uses DDR-3 in ECC mode..
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