So, this is the first computer I've put together, and these are the first run of benchmarks I have turned out. Anyway, everything should be more or less comparable to any other dual processor workstation with a similar board (nForce 3 250, memory for ony one processor, etc...) If anyone has a similar board with 2 Opteron 246's and you have benchmark numbers for it, please let me know if I'm close (or better, hehe) in whatever areas. If anything isn't where it should be PLEASE tell me so I can work on finding out why! Just trying to see if my system is performing as it should.


Iwill Zmax DP SFF nForce 3 250 motherboard, Chasis, and 300W PSU, Mini PCI Wireless card.
2 Amd Opteron 246 Revision CG
WD 80G HDD 8Mb Cache
NEC DVD RW ND-3520A
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 324/290 -stock core/ram speeds
(parenthesis denote overclocked to 355/305)



3D Mark 03 - 3964 (Overclocked 9800 Pro. - 4247)

AquaMark3 - 36875 (Overclocked 9800 Pro. - 39667)
GFX - 4715
CPU - 8456
Tri/sec - 11100858
FPS - 36.88

3D Mark 05 - 1835 (Overclocked 9800 Pro. - 2003)
Game - 1835
CPU - 4799

Note: All graphics benchmarks run at 1024 by 768, AA off,
Aniso at 4x, details set to highest.

PC Mark 04 - 5619 (Overclocked 9800 Pro. - 5637)

CPU - 5347 (5382)
Memory - 4466 (4617)
Graphic - 2719 (3288)
HDD - 3970 (3990)

SiSoftware Sandra

Benchmark Results
Dhrystone ALU : 16785 MIPS
Whetstone FPU : 6392 MFLOPS
Whetstone iSSE2 : 8418 MFLOPS

Benchmark Results
RAM Bandwidth Int Buff'd iSSE2 : 4604 MB/s
RAM Bandwidth Float Buff'd iSSE2 : 4602 MB/s

Int Buff'd iSSE2 (Integer STREAM) Results Breakdown
Assignment : 4606MB/s
Scaling : 4616MB/s
Addition : 4596MB/s
Triad : 4599MB/s
Data Item Size : 16 byte(s)
Buffering Used : Yes
Offset Displacement Used : Yes
Bandwidth Efficiency : 72% (estimated)

Float Buff'd iSSE2 (Float STREAM) Results Breakdown
Assignment : 4604MB/s
Scaling : 4608MB/s
Addition : 4600MB/s
Triad : 4599MB/s
Data Item Size : 16 byte(s)
Buffering Used : Yes
Offset Displacement Used : Yes
Bandwidth Efficiency : 72% (estimated)

Benchmark Results (WD Caviar 80Gig 8mb cache)
Drive Index : 26 MB/s

Benchmark Results (NEC DVD DL)
Drive Index : 2519 kB/s

Benchmark Results (Wireless Connection)
Data Bandwidth : 102 kB/s
Data Latency : 19 ms

Benchmark Breakdown
Run ID : CALVN_SWING on Tuesday, March 01, 2005 at 9:37:49 AM
Average Latency : 19ms
Min/Max Latency : 11ms / 21ms
Speed : 102kB/s (836kbits/s)

Like I said, someone let me know if anything is off. I want this machine to be running as smoothly and as quickly as it can. Thanks!

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Iwill Zmax DP SFF Barebones kit... (300W PSU, 8 USB, 1 FW, etc...)
Dual AMD Opteron 275's | 2 Gigs (2 Dimms 1024Mb) Patriot RAM 3-3-3-8
WD Caviar 80 Gig HDD - System
WD Raptor 74 Gig HDD
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256
NEC ND-3520A Dual Layer DVD±RW | Mitsumi Floppy/Card Reader combo

Well, I'm not quite ready to post my new line of Specs (Which will include a 32bit-64bit comparison, as well as my conversion from the PATA 7200 RPM 80Gig to a SATA 10K 74 Gig Raptor). Why? Because I have this weird bug. My memory performance in 64bit is about 1/5th of what it is in 32-bit. 802 MB/s. I'm trying to figure out why and if anyone else has run across this I'd love to know about it so I don't re-invent the wheel here trying to fix it. - Or Un-invent it for that matter...

Thanks!

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Iwill Zmax DP SFF Barebones kit... (300W PSU, 8 USB, 1 FW, etc...)
Dual AMD Opteron 275's | 2 Gigs (2 Dimms 1024Mb) Patriot RAM 3-3-3-8
WD Caviar 80 Gig HDD - System
WD Raptor 74 Gig HDD
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256
NEC ND-3520A Dual Layer DVD±RW | Mitsumi Floppy/Card Reader combo

once you get everything worked out... what will be the function of your new workstation? (what applications will you likely run? any games?)

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Latest workstation:
Lian li PC-A05B, KN3-SLi, 4400 Brisbane, Freezer 64 Pro, 2 gigs Super-Talent T800UX2GC4, 36 raptor system drive, Caviar RE 320 storage drive, Hiper 580, Ati 1300 Pro, running Vista Home Premium 64-bit with Symantec 10.2.224

I play games in my off time - which I haven't done in about 4 weeks. (Right after I got it I put in an old hard drive, booted up, and played Homeworld 2 for a few hours. (Ran great! Much Much smoother than on my dual Athlon MP 1800 machine. (Which has since bit the dust HARD).

Aside from that, I run FormZ - architectural modeling software, 3D Studio Viz, AutoCAD, Macromedia Flash, Photoshop CS, Maya, Rhino, Lightwave, and anything else that has free trial offers. (Sketchup is my newest toy - not liking it thus far, and no - it isn't a condiment modeling software. It is for architecture too.)

I also play Praetorians, Sim City 2000 and 3000(of course), Worms Armageddon, etc...

My next upgrade is going to be an Nvidia Graphics card (either a workstation or a 6800 - not sure yet what I can afford.) That's about it though. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask - but try to answer some of mine too!!! (just kidding around.)

Thanks

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Iwill Zmax DP SFF Barebones kit... (300W PSU, 8 USB, 1 FW, etc...)
Dual AMD Opteron 275's | 2 Gigs (2 Dimms 1024Mb) Patriot RAM 3-3-3-8
WD Caviar 80 Gig HDD - System
WD Raptor 74 Gig HDD
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256
NEC ND-3520A Dual Layer DVD±RW | Mitsumi Floppy/Card Reader combo

Also, if anyone knows, what kind of bandwidth should I expect form dual channel Ragistered Ram? I have 2 512 matched sticks of OCZ DDR400 at 2-3-2-6 and according to CPUZ I am running in single channel mode. I am getting around 4600-4800 MB/s right now. Is that about right and CPUZ is wrong? Or what?

Thanks!!!

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Iwill Zmax DP SFF Barebones kit... (300W PSU, 8 USB, 1 FW, etc...)
Dual AMD Opteron 275's | 2 Gigs (2 Dimms 1024Mb) Patriot RAM 3-3-3-8
WD Caviar 80 Gig HDD - System
WD Raptor 74 Gig HDD
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256
NEC ND-3520A Dual Layer DVD±RW | Mitsumi Floppy/Card Reader combo

Allright,

So, I have some benches comparing 32bit to 64bit from Sandra finally. (Getting Windows 64 installed was a heinous something or other. It killed my 32 bit windows installation on a seperate partition, and then a seperate drive the first two times I installed it. Dual Boot was HOPELESS. So, I have a HDD on me desk with 64bit, and an HDD in my computer with 32bit, and I unplug one and plug in the other depending on how I feel. Anyway, I'm putting together some final results and will post them soon! Promise.

And if I can get my futuremark stuff to run I'll post those too.

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Iwill Zmax DP SFF Barebones kit... (300W PSU, 8 USB, 1 FW, etc...)
Dual AMD Opteron 275's | 2 Gigs (2 Dimms 1024Mb) Patriot RAM 3-3-3-8
WD Caviar 80 Gig HDD - System
WD Raptor 74 Gig HDD
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256
NEC ND-3520A Dual Layer DVD±RW | Mitsumi Floppy/Card Reader combo