[12:19:05] + Benchmarking ...
[12:19:14] The benchmark result is 1461

What do you guys get when starting up the F@H client? The -verbosity 9 tag must be applied before it will show the benchmark #. Mine just seems quite low despite having an || AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 'NewCastle', S754, 2.0 GHz - Or is that normal for my chip?

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|| Folding@Home for potions of greater cure on Linux. [Team 51870]
|| AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 'NewCastle', S754, 2.0 GHz
|| 1x512 MB CorsairVS DDR333 2.5:3:3:8:1T
|| MSI K8N Neo Platinum, nVIDIA nForce 3 250Gb
|| ATi Radeon 9550 256 MB DDR, AGP 4X/8X, RETAIL version (upgrade)
|| Seagate 4.3 GB, 4500 RPM, IDE Ultra A

[21:25:51] + Benchmarking...
[21:25:54] The benchmark result is 6552

System specs:
Athlon X2 3800+ (Manchester), 2.0Ghz, S939
1.5GB DDR RAM

That does look a little low, even with a 3000+ NewCastle... but I've got two things going for me, 64-bit Windows (not sure if that's helping any... it feels slower) and the dual-core processor that's freeing up per-core resources.

Make sure all your other memory- and CPU-hoarding applications are shut down before benchmarking. The only things on my taskbar at the time of benchmarking were the console and Mozilla Firefox.

(P.S.: Call me a heretic, but the NewCastle architecture seems relatively slow in Windows XP 32-bit... perhaps it's the "NetBurst" of AMD. Oh well. :/ I still have my 3400+ S754 XP-32 system, and I noticed a very, very major performance boost when I switched to a Socket 939 X2.)

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