Tertz wrote:Thanks for your results, guys. […]
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Thanks for your results, guys.
kithylin wrote:Even though I did put AIDA64 cpu info in the final screenshots, I was closing it, running demos, then opening it, taking screenshot, closing it, running next demo, etc, etc.
Then it's not AIDA who's taken 10% of your CPU power, for example CPU-Z gets 7% fps on my system. But it's evidently that something has taken 10% or did not allow your CPU to use 100%.
34-35 fps is what should be gotten according to E8600 from same year. I don't know other ways to get stable +10% except frequency (you are sure it was same, but I'd recommend to check frequency only with CPU-Z as it's a specialized application and probably is more sensitive) or some software (OS, applications). Most probably it's software issues, wich concrete ones is a separate theme. As you may see, on 3rd picture you get 34 fps on demo1 but not 31, 39 fps in demo2 but not 36, - something has changed and has allowed your CPU to get correct results without 10% loss.
I'm not sure why you're not understanding me or I don't know what you're not getting here. When I ran the dosbox benchmark I had -NOTHING- running in the background to effect anything, no software, no monitoring, nothing but the bare minimum to keep windows running I even disabled networking temporarily. And yes, I can assure you 100% my cpu's speeds don't change, not even 1 Mhz in either direction. I can sit here watching cpu-z for hours, nothing changes.
There is no "magic 10% difference", what it is is what it is and that's it. And I was considering testing some of my other machines with this, but don't think I'll bother. You don't seem to believe anything I post anyway.
Tertz wrote:Usually people don't overclock CPUs, don't use old hardware and don't write on retro forums. From local guys you may expect everything. 😀
Also just so you know, yes a lot of people overclock a lot of hardware. I overclock nearly everything I own, at least the things modern enough to find replacement chips easily and cheaply. Which is like AthlonXP and newer so far for me. And I do everything I can to prevent clock speed changes in all machines I own. Disabling speedstep, EIST, Cool`n`quiet (AMD), turbo modes, etc. All of my machines run with fixed clock speeds, even my big x58 i7 @ 4.4 ghz.
Things I don't overclock: my 386, my 486's, my socket7 machines, etc. Old stuff that's not easy to replace.