Setting CPU type in prime95 V20.4.1 and then examining local.ini,
CPUType=3 is a Cyrix 6x86
CPUType=4 is a 486
CPUType=5 is a Pentium
CPUType=6 is a Pentium Pro
CPUType=7 is an AMD K6
CPUType=8 is a Celeron
CPUType=9 is a PentiumII
CPUType=10 is a PentiumIII
CPUType=11 is an AMD Athlon
So CPUType=1 must be what, an Intel 80286? (More likely an unsupported
value.)
If I enter CPUType=1 or 2 or 3, while editing local.ini, prime95 displays
it as a Cyrix 6x86.
RollingAverage=1000 means the system runs iterations at 1000/1000 the
expected speed
(indexed relative to George Woltman's PII-400 on a per-Megahertz basis)
Lower RollingAverage numbers mean lower performance. Higher numbers,
higher performance.
Your P3-500 is performing much better than the lowly cpu type the program
thinks it is.
But it is given only double checks because the program thinks it's a much
slower cpu type than
it actually is, and so does the primenet server. Make the CPUType in
local.ini match the actual
processor type, and you can get first-time tests, and use code that's more
efficient for your cpu
because it's what George tuned for it.
Options, CPU, click on Pentium III.
Ken
At 06:38 PM 9/14/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>I'm using a P3-500E box at college to run mprime.
>
>The relevant lines of the local.ini look like
>
>LastEndDatesSent=967023734
>RollingStartTime=968950008
>RollingAverage=4000
>CPUType=1
>CPUSpeed=500
>CPUHours=24
>
>How come I get given only double-checks to do? I don't mind too much -- the
>machine kills off a double-check in ten days -- but I'd be slightly
>surprised if the frontier of 'obsolete; use for double-checks only' had
>reached this one-year-old box yet. That Rolling Average figure looks kind of
>high, too.
>
>Tom
>
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