Race yourself?

Just Learnin'

Care to torture your rig and maybe come away with some hardware? http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/sho...442#post223442 They are having a PI eating contest.

Best of luck to you if so!!

Lowfat

Pfft. I ain't switching 3D Teams

Just Learnin'

Just take your 2 hwboints back to Xtremesystems when the contest is over Lowfat!

H3X4D3C1M4L

I want to see someone enter with a PII or something, see how much better they can get that going over the stock speeds

Just Learnin'

That's what it is about, best over stock anything! The better you get above stock the more chances you have. Random draw, not a who has the most expensive or best equipment deal.

Lowfat

hey, don't be hating !

Just Learnin'

Not at all Lowfat. Everybody gets a chance at some fun is all. And any boints follow you wherever you register so... register the bot back with Xtreme when it's over. Chance at a couple of decent prizes and a bit of knowledge gained perhaps is all.

Lowfat

I looked over how it is judged, i might have to sign up then. I thought it was just for the highest over stock, not from ballots. My CPU is a horrible clocker.

I won't learn anything though, my SuperPi knowledge is super dooper

Just Learnin'

Ballots in a hat! Everyone gets a chance. Maybe you can teach others some tricks?

Lowfat

Do you know if we can enter more than one CPU?

Just Learnin'

Just one as far as I know. I will PM Snafu and ask. Best to pick the one which gives you the best improvement from stock to overclocked times in PI 1M and 32M. Maybe you are allowed different ones in each category though? I will post back and let you know.

Be a good first post question for you to ask there then everyone will see what is what.

Just Learnin'

The reply is :

Judas

i should enter my 486dx4 overclocked 2.25x it's default clock (75mhz to 166mhz roughly)

I think i could get it to post @ 180mhz though..... I mounted a 939 socket cooler on it copper core, just about doesn't fit.... looks frigen nasty lol.

Just Learnin'

Go for it! Pics???

Judas

I need a digicam..

but i could probably get some at some point...

the machine is running windows XP though

Just Learnin'

It would be neat to see. Xp yet..... unbelievable!

Judas

I've never ran superpi though...

anything i should know?

Judas

hey lowfat..... maybe i'll just send you my shots and you can submit them

it says stock cooling..

wtf..

that's bull, the 75mhz 486 had no heatsink or fan on it... Well at least this one didn't.... (compaqs... dammit)

Just Learnin'

"Stock cooling" Just means air as opposed to dry ice, LN2, phase, cascade etc. That is to get your baseline score and you go up from there. Nobody would want to risk a SuperPI 32M run at stock settings using dry ice. Chances for disaster and the effort involved are prohibitive.

All there really is to know about running SuperPI is download it: http://www.xtremesystems.com/pi/

Unzip it and doubleclick the .exe file, click the calculate tab at top left and use the pop up to choose the run you want to make.

The 1M and 32M runs are being used for the contest.

I would suggest you wait till you have A LOT of time to run the 32M on that machine Judas.

Do this without any overclock all auto or stock settings in the BIOS and take a screenshot of the result with the PI calculation done popup still open and 3 instances of CPU-Z open in the screenshot. One with the CPU tab, one, with the memory tab, and one with the SPD tab open. Also a temp monitoring program shot is asked for in the screenie.

Then tweak your system to it's most uber performance levels, FSB, RAM timings, voltages, OS tweaks etc. to obtain your best possible time in the SuperPI run.

Take another screenshot like above and that is it.

It is best not to have any other programs running when doing the actual run in SuperPI. Don't open the CPU-Z and temp monitoring programs till after the run. They will actually slow down SuperPI if left open during the run.

There are a lot of tweaks to learn but most of them involve your BIOS settings, your actual knowledge of what makes your rig run it's fastest. OS tweaks and fresh installs help etc. etc.

Just Learnin'

Someone at the site actually did a SuperPI 32M run on some 486's, his results are on page 3 of this thread: http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/sho...hlight=fastest

Judas

lol


BTW, there is no bios really... all the settings are set via jumpers and dip switches... many of them.

Judas

oh wow.

i found a machine.. which looks like it runs 8mhz.

I think i can get windows 95 to load on it..

it's likea 286 or 386 or something.. i haven't tore into it, but it's got 4 sticks of 1mb ram.... lol.

will superpi run on windows 95?

Just Learnin'

I....I... I.... don't know. lol

Why not use your best rig and throw up the scores? Get some ballots in on that Mountain Mods case.

Judas

meh.. nothing there REALLY intrigues me enough to jump on it atm with what i've got to do atm..

browsing the DH forums is taking up just enough time between windows installs and program installs and diagnostics and whatnot... etc.

Just Learnin'

Well if you find the time go for it anyway, nice to see how well others can do with their rigs.