Monday, December 15, 2008

I am a hopeless geek

I am sorry. I couldn't help myself. I had to follow the International Overclocking competition.
In this competition, teams compete to make a computer compute at fast as they can make them compute. They use leading edge technology, top-of-the-line components, liquid-cooled and even liquid nitrogen-cooled configurations. Here are the results:

Final results (USA wins!):

Benchmark USA Taiwan Germany France Italy
SuperPi 1.5 1M 8,078 8,157 8,093 7,987 7,985
SuperPi 1.5 32M 7 min 49,969 s 7 min 52,516 s 7 min 40,953 s 7 min 24,990 s 7 min 40.984 s
wPrime 1.55 32M 5,188 5,422 5,219 5,756 5,297
wPrime 1.55 1024M 160,937 170,375 165,872 186,982 165,11
PiFast 4.1 17,56 17,86 17,44 17,29 17,36
AquaMark 2003 253814 251703 319212 238929 233043
3DMark 01 71010 71591 72764 71545 71821
3DMark 03 79794 75002 76105 69865 76188
3DMark 05 36762 35893 36586 35733 37070
3DMark 06 26733 25483 24194 22318 25143

Benchmark/Scores USA Taiwan Germany France Italy
SuperPi 1.5 1M 10 20 30 60 100
SuperPi 1.5 32M 10 20 60 100 30
wPrime 1.55 32M 100 20 60 10 30
wPrime 1.55 1024M 100 10 30 20 60
PiFast 4.1 10 20 30 100 60
AquaMark 2003 60 10 100 30 20
3DMark 01 30 100 0 0 60
3DMark 03 30 100 60 0 20
3DMark 05 100 60 0 0 30
3DMark 06 100 60 0 0 30
TOTAL SCORE 550 420 370 320 440
RANKING 1st 3rd 4th 5th 2nd

3 comments:

wiljac said...

When you overclock, what do you do to cool your own computer?

Alan said...

Right now, I just have a stock fan, but I can hear it spinning very fast to cool the CPU. I used to have cheap liquid-cooled system, but it burned out and destroyed my motherboard. My next computer case will be a liquid-cooled system, but of higher quality. I am like an auto enthusiast who is always tinkering with the car engine. I am always tinkering with my computer hardware.

Teresa said...

Geek is sleek!