OptyTrooper Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 I think a dual socket 940 comp. would be a blast! K8N-DRE's are dirt cheap (and very tweakable if you have the right tools) as are dual core Opterons and DDR400 ECC. Slap your favorite pxci-e x16 card and drive in an away you go! It's hardare most of us can afford and most everyone would be learning a new platform making for a lot of fun! Just a thought. Perhaps WPrime32 and 1024 and supePi 32 and 1M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 What about a multi-CPU team challenge? All Wprime 1024M or so - dual 462 - dual 940 - dual 1366 (sr2) - dual 370 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 What about a multi-CPU team challenge? All Wprime 1024M or so - dual 462 - dual 940 - dual 1366 (sr2) - dual 370 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptyTrooper Posted April 26, 2011 Author Share Posted April 26, 2011 Even better! I likes the sound of this especially since I has all these boards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 . Any other cool and challenging multi-cpu platforms? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptyTrooper Posted April 26, 2011 Author Share Posted April 26, 2011 socket 604 of course! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew Turrican Posted April 26, 2011 Crew Share Posted April 26, 2011 i have a quad socket 603/604 board here, but no cpus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 So, - dual 462 - dual 940 - dual 1366 - dual 370 - dual 771 - dual 604 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knopflerbruce Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 socket F! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Scott Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Dual 462. K7D Master L ready. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sduneman3 Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 socket F! +1 Socket F boards are getting pretty cheap, along with CPU's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew Antinomy Posted April 27, 2011 Crew Share Posted April 27, 2011 Massman, it might be a two-part competition - the ones about 771, 1366, 940, 604, 1207 are server ones. While Socket 7 (yeah, the first wide-spread mass SMP platform!), Slot 1, Socket 370, 462 are the Workstation platforms. I prefer the workstation ones but many guys like the 940, I know. And maybe a PCMark competition for the duallies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Two part as in 'stage 1: server' and 'stage 2: workstation'? That'll just lead to winning with newest gear. I prefer 5-way stage, same benchmark and 5 different platforms you need to compete on. Just like this month's challenge. PCMark would be nice, but doesn't scale over 4 cores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew Antinomy Posted April 27, 2011 Crew Share Posted April 27, 2011 Each stage - different competition. One for servers (with a number of stages) and one for workstations. Otherwise some interesting platforms won't take part. 5-way stage workstation and 5-way server is more than enough. For the workstation PCMark will be interesting - assuming the highest being Socket A - there will be only two cores in the system. More than good fit for PCMark. For example, a WS competition with wPrime and PCMark (long Prime let's say). When you go to server segment - yes, PCMark05 is pretty useless. And the WS platform list is rather short (s8 is a rare one to be popular enough for the competition). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 I mean: if we split up in "workstation" and "server", there are only two platforms that should be used for best score. Splitting up per platform gives more different setups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptyTrooper Posted April 27, 2011 Author Share Posted April 27, 2011 I mean: if we split up in "workstation" and "server", there are only two platforms that should be used for best score. Splitting up per platform gives more different setups. Agreed. Keep things simple yet varied. There are enough dual-socket platforms to keep folks plenty busy. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when some "top guns" get ahold of a K8N-DRE and have no idea how to make it overclock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew Antinomy Posted April 27, 2011 Crew Share Posted April 27, 2011 Massy, you didn't get the point. For example, there can be one competition about workstation having PCMark05, wPrime 1024M. This will give 5-way for s7, s370 and s462. Another one, server could handle wPrime 1024 and/or PCM Vantage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Oh, my apoligies. My brain couldn't handle making "amount of competitions" variable. It's fixed to 1/month Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew Antinomy Posted April 28, 2011 Crew Share Posted April 28, 2011 (edited) Yep. I didn't say they should be in one month. And not even two in a row Idea was about splitting WS/Server and adding PCM05 to WS. And since we started, I remember a twin-head WS achievement suggestion. Think of it again - the current about 10 submissions is too simple Edited April 28, 2011 by Antinomy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bones Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 A7M on standby.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slngsht Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 Agreed. Keep things simple yet varied. There are enough dual-socket platforms to keep folks plenty busy. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when some "top guns" get ahold of a K8N-DRE and have no idea how to make it overclock. This made me laugh. I'd be up for the 370 section. It will FORCE me to pull out my BP6 and figure out how the hell to install a dang os on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Scott Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 This made me laugh. I'd be up for the 370 section. It will FORCE me to pull out my BP6 and figure out how the hell to install a dang os on it. I can help you with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slngsht Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 That would be awesome. I can't get it to recognize any of my cd-rom drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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