Stress Test MK II

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Can you see there, on the intel rig pic... a phone cable?? Maybe thg is calling intel guys and saying: "HEY, Windows crashed with a blue screen saying "Error in memory adress FFFF-232AD-4EF32... what is that supposed to mean"? "I´m sorry guys, P4 dual core is only compatible with Win98..." Ahhahahahahaahahaha Just kidding. But I´m expecting a gooooood excuse about those reboots.
 
Well how many helping hands have done something to get the AMD system going again, like it's not the first. It's had a reset in the past as the highest fan speed reached was reset from the once greater than 6000RPM, now the heighest is 5273RPM So the AMD has had score resets to help it get noticed for even being in the competition.

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The min, avg and max results will be for the length of the viewable graph. The max rpm of over 6000 will have been over 24 hours ago and therefore not the max being displayed. Look at the CPU usage figures; min of 96% and 97%, I've seen both cores well below that yesterday but as it's over 24 hours ago it doesn't register anymore.

Wait until (if) the weekly graphs are sorted and you'll see the true min, avg and max.


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<font color=green>AMD</font color=green> Athlon64, Abit AV8.
<font color=blue>Intel</font color=blue> Dual PIII, Asus P2B-DS.
<font color=blue>VIA</font color=blue> Epia M9000.
<font color=red>I</font color=red><font color=green>B</font color=green><font color=blue>M</font color=blue> Thinkpad 570E.
 
As usual, porkster isn't the brightest lightbulb in the dollar pack. If you scroll down a bit, it is actually listed there in the max field for fan speed.
 
While the Intel box was briefly putting a showing in, did anyone else spot the dull red coloured addition to the NorthBridge heatsink on the Asus mobo?
Earlier today I spotted it and when it wasn't there later on I (incorrectly) assumed they'd switched boards. Perhaps they hadn't and this is still the first Asus board.

Could it be an extra heatsink for the NB?

Any ideas?

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<font color=green>AMD</font color=green> Athlon64, Abit AV8.
<font color=blue>Intel</font color=blue> Dual PIII, Asus P2B-DS.
<font color=blue>VIA</font color=blue> Epia M9000.
<font color=red>I</font color=red><font color=green>B</font color=green><font color=blue>M</font color=blue> Thinkpad 570E.
 
If you look at the taskbar thingie at the bottom no programs are running.

Edit: looks like theyre running fry cry now
now the wattage jumped from 500+ to 600+ now its near 700<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by liquidpaper007 on 06/07/05 12:23 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
 
Yep, FarCry is loading, but they forgot to put the extra VGA card in for SLI!

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<font color=green>AMD</font color=green> Athlon64, Abit AV8.
<font color=blue>Intel</font color=blue> Dual PIII, Asus P2B-DS.
<font color=blue>VIA</font color=blue> Epia M9000.
<font color=red>I</font color=red><font color=green>B</font color=green><font color=blue>M</font color=blue> Thinkpad 570E.
 
If i see correctly, the pentium dual core is running at 83 C right now....ouch.....

OMG....now its 90 C

Quick, someone get a fire extinguisher!!!
 
Look at the times on the chart, that appears to be from just after 9am this morning. Hehe, just as the core voltage dropped! Thermal protection anyone?! Look at the fan speed for the time... poor cpu.

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<font color=green>AMD</font color=green> Athlon64, Abit AV8.
<font color=blue>Intel</font color=blue> Dual PIII, Asus P2B-DS.
<font color=blue>VIA</font color=blue> Epia M9000.
<font color=red>I</font color=red><font color=green>B</font color=green><font color=blue>M</font color=blue> Thinkpad 570E.
 
it had to throttle down it appears. hope on fireworks is gone, mayb the cooler will fall off... but the firebeast still gonn survive and raise from ashes to kill new motherboards and waste more power. mayb it killed the other graphics card too
 
I guess the Intel 24 hour graph is live, just with the wrong times at the top.

Phew! 88 degrees!

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<font color=green>AMD</font color=green> Athlon64, Abit AV8.
<font color=blue>Intel</font color=blue> Dual PIII, Asus P2B-DS.
<font color=blue>VIA</font color=blue> Epia M9000.
<font color=red>I</font color=red><font color=green>B</font color=green><font color=blue>M</font color=blue> Thinkpad 570E.
 
I have not posted here before, but am on another message board and was following the stress test. I came here hoping they would put up some official information, but I was wrong. To clearify things the second board was ASUS P5ND2-SLI Deluxe. It is an NF4 board also. The third board is ASUS P5LD2 Deluxe. It is an i945 chipset board. It is not a true SLI board. They are running with only one card and it looks like they might have swapped the PS as the end of the ATX cable has a black foam wrap and a zip tie. They have also pulled the graphics card and memory, but it looks to be the same type.

I stopped counting the reboots and any IT guy would have pulled the system a long time ago. I think they have been talking to engineers from ASUS, PC Power and Cooling, GigaByte, nVidia, and Intel all morning trying to get this system up. The thing is a mess. I think they are trying to narrow it down to the CPU before Intel will send another sample. Things do not look good.

The other thing I noted was the power... the power meter shows ~360w... that is at the plug with the AMD system running. With both systems going the total is 820w. That puts the P-EE system at ~460w. That is 120w more. Now the PS is supposed to be an ATX 2.0 so it is at least 70% efficient. That puts the AMD system at ~250w and the P-EE at ~320w. The only differance between them is the memory, motherboard, and CPU and seeing as they both use NF4 chipsets and DDR2 is supposed to draw less power, that puts the power draw of the P-EE EXTREMELY high. Assuming the X2 draws about 80w, that P4 is potentially drawing ~150w or more. Now either AMD's is drawing much less than what it is rated for or Intel's is drawing MUCH more (or a little of both).

Now for the DivX part of things. I do not really mind DivX, but he likes use XMPEG which is VERY buggy and does favour the P-4. Not too many people use it. Likely it is set at minimum priority and sits idle most of the time. The P-EE has 4 logical cores which can handle loadbalancing the 4 applications better. Litterally the test was stacked in Intel's favour right from the start. This is NOT a "real world" situation by a long shot. Now playing FarCry while running DVD Shink would be something I would do if my Athlon64 3500+ could handle it. Maybe he should have picked a game and one compression program that was multi-threaded to lead all the logical cores down. That would have been a much more accurate and realistic test.

Hopefully THG gives an official update. Last time they updated every day what was going on. The system has basically died completely and they have not said a thing.
 
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