Fry’s had a 2.4 Prescott on sale and I couldn’t resist… I know… 533 FSB, no Hyperthreading, and it generates a TON of heat, but what the heck… I’m fascinated by new stuff at the right price! I immediately popped the FSB up to 167 to push the chip to 3 GHz. on the stock cooler and standard 1.4 volts. At that speed, the chip temperature is in the mid 40’s at idle and goes to the mid 60’s under 100% load. Hotter than I would like, but it doesn’t seem to show any initial instability at those temps.
Now the impressive part; I run a lot of SETI (3rd place on the THG Team) and I use SETI to compare machines. My fastest Athlon XP rigs can average about 400 Mflops/sec on a work unit. The new Prescott just crunched a unit at an average of 615 Mflops/Sec! Just to be sure I’m running the same work unit on my XP3200+ and sure enough… it’s running around 400 Mflops... My old Northwood 2.2 was a SETI weakling! But I assume this impressive Prescott performance has something to do with SETI fitting in that nice 1 Meg cache…
Scout
700 Mflops in SETI!
Now the impressive part; I run a lot of SETI (3rd place on the THG Team) and I use SETI to compare machines. My fastest Athlon XP rigs can average about 400 Mflops/sec on a work unit. The new Prescott just crunched a unit at an average of 615 Mflops/Sec! Just to be sure I’m running the same work unit on my XP3200+ and sure enough… it’s running around 400 Mflops... My old Northwood 2.2 was a SETI weakling! But I assume this impressive Prescott performance has something to do with SETI fitting in that nice 1 Meg cache…
Scout
700 Mflops in SETI!