I'm still puzzled as to why some people are getting very hight scores for the "Mandelbrot's Fractal" thingy and then others are getting very low ones... even with the same processor.

I will try again later after a fresh boot... it may well be a clogged up cache!

phil

It's odd phil, as col's second run he scores just 971 on MF section then over 14k on his next go :confused::confused:

Very weird..... will investigate tonight me thinks!

Im thinking the mandelbrot thing might be something to do with vista.. the one i did which was high i did in Win7

Aahhh... cos I got a higher score on my ikkle sony with its 900mhz Intel M (running at 600mhz) and that runs xp.

Phil

Mandlebrot is very CPU intensive, but if you've got a really good graphics card it might be handed off to the GPU to deal with.

It's also quite parallel, so I guess if you get timing issues in the software you could have the function doing only a single thread of work or 2 or 3 or 4 threads.

Doing 2 or more threads of that should speed things up massively.

I also get the feeling that this test is probably a load of old coblers anyway as if your CPU does anything else it's going to have to context switch. Doing a context switch mid generating a Mandelbrot set would potentially be very CPU time intensive.

I also get the feeling that this test is probably a load of old coblers anyway as if your CPU does anything else it's going to have to context switch. Doing a context switch mid generating a Mandelbrot set would potentially be very CPU time intensive.

Does this mean you guys will have to put your willies away now?

Does this mean you guys will have to put your willies away now?

They are only virtual willies....... I can imagine what this would look like if backlinked to other forums, Skoda Drivers ........... PC geeks and geeky willy waving. It's going to look good

They are only virtual willies....... I can imagine what this would look like if backlinked to other forums, Skoda Drivers ........... PC geeks and geeky willy waving. It's going to look good

Thanks for the clarification, I virtually understood that:thumbup:

What about the battle of the Netbooks?

standard Eeepc 900 running XP:

I'm abit concerned that it's only showing 521Kb memory when it's supposed to have 1GB as standard!

FIGHT FIGHT!!! Battle of the ‘Weenie Willy Wavers’!!!

What about the battle of the Netbooks?

standard Eeepc 900 running XP:

I'm abit concerned that it's only showing 521Kb memory when it's supposed to have 1GB as standard!

that's second level CPU cache Roy, not your Ram. Think of it as the waiting room in a doctor's or something along those lines, were everyone is gathered together ready to get inside and see the quack.

Mine against the OP.

Looks like the quad really does make a lot of difference.

I just can't be bothered to upgrade it, lol.

Mine against the OP.

Looks like the quad really does make a lot of difference.

I just can't be bothered to upgrade it, lol.

Ooo another Q9450 along to whip the Q6600 boys

Ooo another Q9450 along to whip the Q6600 boys

This thread is becoming a bit Geeko-erotic in nature. I mean all this willy waving and now whipping too:eek:

This thread is becoming a bit Geeko-erotic in nature. I mean all this willy waving and now whipping too:eek:

Awww poor amanda.. feeling left out?? i can do a personal performance if ya like?

Awww poor amanda.. feeling left out?? i can do a personal performance if ya like?

Let me guess……this would entail an overclocked ECU thingy and a big graphix card? Or did you mean you would lap dance for me:thumbup:

Let me guess……this would entail an overclocked ECU thingy and a big graphix card? Or did you mean you would lap dance for me:thumbup:

Would that not be a laptop dance?

Would that not be a laptop dance?

He’s not answering:D

Or did you mean you would lap dance for me:thumbup:

Oh that is not good:(:(:(:(

Ooo another Q9450 along to whip the Q6600 boys

Is that what mine is?

The pic on the left is yours, and right is mine...

All hail the 4400+ X2!!!!

Edited 14 November, 200817 yr by apinner

Tested my Acer Aspire 7520 Laptop (Athlon 64x2 1.7GHz, 2GB RAM) and my Desktop (Q6600, 2GB RAM) *It's beaten Philjes score and mines running stock

Edited 14 November, 200817 yr by Captain Sisko

Computer Spec:

Dell XPS 720 H2C

Intel Core2Extreme Q6850

8Gb RAM

2x Nvidia 8800 GTX

This is my highest score, running at a maxed out 3.95GHz:

This is at 3.8GHz, used for gaming:

This is at 3.6GHz, Dell's recommended overclocked setting:

This is at 3.5GHz, what I run the computer at when not doing much: