Hello from Paris...
Got one problem maybe some Prime95 Guru can help me.
I'm working with Prime 95 20.4.1 on different 3 machines.
I baught 2 days ago 2 new cpus and motherboard. Well, everything's running
well, thanks to the Microsoft software well known ease of installation,
upgrade and general reliability (jokes, here, hum).
On 2 machines I have a regular "benchmark" LL time :
- NT4, PIII 350, L2, 256 Mb, blah blah, P 9851099 => 0.260 iteration time
which seems to be ok (George's bench gives 0.269)
- Win98 (first regular version), Celeron 466, blah blah, P 9260113 => 0.290
it time (George's is 0.282)
On the 3rd machine, it seems to be abnormal :
- Win98 (same as above)
- Pentium III 650, 1.65 V, L1 and L2 activated (I verified the BIOS)
- 128 Mb ram, 20 gigs UDMA 4
- MB: Asus CUV4X (agp 4x bus, not a cheap one), Xentor 16Mb video ...
- No abnormal process running (same antivirus as other machines, etc.)
- P 9264797 => 0.231 (George's gives 0.190)
This seems to me a very high it time (closer to George's PIII 500).
CPU temp is 60C (far from 82C maximum), not overclocked, etc.
So I ran ZD benchmarks WinBench 99, it gives :
WinBench 99/CPUmark 99
- 34 for the Win98 Celeron 466
- 34.9 for the NT PIII 450
- 57.2 for the Win98 PIII 650
WinBench 99/FPU WinMark
- 2490 for the Win98 Celeron 466
- 2270 for the NT PIII 450
- 3500 for the Win98 PIII 650
As I see from the ZD benches, it seems to me this PIII 650 is
proportionnaly "as expected" compared to both other cpus. That's why I
don't understand this machine is processing Prime iterations so slowly.
Note : I correctly checked the PIII and put 650 value (24 hours) in the
Prime cpu options. I did reboot, does not change.
I also reboot in "no failure mode" (don't know the exact term in english),
it doesn't change anything.
Questions are (at least, sorry for the long text) :
- can someone confirm the it time with a PIII 650 ?
- someone has any CPU time with an Asus CUV4X mamaboard ?
- what should I check ? any idea ?
Thank you for any info.
Sylvain Perez
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