You can suspend hard drives, or at least decouple them. You would be amazed how much difference that can make. Almost totally eliminates the grinding noise. Does nothing for whine though, the only way to get rid of whine is to buy a quiet HDD. Samsung currently are the quietest desktop sized HDDs.

 

I've just unplugged the secondary drives for now

Going to buy some quieter ones when the main one fills up

 

Well without disabling anything I got 15 seconds on the E8400

Gotta love the new 45nm chips!!!!

Ermmm..... quiet? Well I've got a fan going mental in here at the moment then but even with Orthos running I'm only peaking at 47 on one core and that's without any secondary fans kicking in!

 

Overclocked to 3.6GHz and the time is down to 12 seconds.

Core temp stayed at 46-48C. I think I may have put too much paste on... but if it won't go over 50 I'm happy

 

my intel core 2 6600 @ 2.88(standard fig 2.4), did it in 19 secs

dave

 

Wheres, the f*kin thing on the page you have to D/L?

i hate pages like that which hide the program you want


WHY do they do it

why not have a simple tab or button?

Cant be a*sed now

Mart

 

45s for and old AMD64 3400+ (2.2ghz) bog standard, with loads loaded under Vista 32.

 

AMD X2 Dual core AM2 Athlon 64 6000 3.0GHz.xp pro,firefox,norton

 

My e6400 (2x 2.13GHz) 2gig 667 Ram

Standard speeds 27sec:




Mild overclock (2.804GHz, 1402.2FSB, RAM at 700MHz (350.5), standard voltages, stock heat sinks). Stable, an cool, with fans at lowest audible speeds (It's a very quiet PC ): 21secs



All with the usual background junk running.

 

Seems a little slow as my ancient machine was 48s. Try it again when you are on the machine with less running in the background. I'm actually really happy with my little XP 2500+, I thought it was going to be murdered by these new fancy CPUs

 

21 seconds on my core 2 duo stock 2.4GHZ E6600 with 4 GB of corsair ram

 

I don't even want to attempt it. I would be waiting a while for it to finish.
Athlon 1 GHz Tbird. Overclocked to a blistering 1.2 GHz

 

Ive got a 74g Raptor as my primary disk for OS and Games. In my old case it was pretty noisy (installed in standard bay horizontally). My new case has removable bays and the drive is installed vertically on rubber washers. Can hardly hear the thing now so a big difference.

Simon

 

Will try mine tonight for comparison as didnt get a chance last night.

Simon

 

Stable at 3.8GHz now - and got the fan sorted. It won't go above 42C at the moment (still 12 seconds on SuperPi)

 

20 seconds on my stock intel quad core

 

What utilisation is there on the CPU...seeing my dual cores just clock up 50%, I bet yours is just using 25%, plus scratching its **** and picking its nose at the same time

Anyhoo, just tried my works laptop: Toshiba Satelite Pro A120 (Intel T5500 2x 1.66GHz, 1gig 533MHz RAM).....34 seconds.

And STILL it won't go above 50% utilisation

(should mention, all my system are Vista x64, except the laptop which is Vista 32).

 

didn't use more than 50% for T7600@2.33ghz dell lappie with 4gigs ram

... 23secs for 1M

 

Exact same result for me 15 secs at stock so at least consistent.

Simon

 

Cool May I ask what case it is? Most of the cases I have tried, or drive bays that use the rubber washers have not been that effective. I've gone for two foam strips to rest the HDD on. I've made sure there is airflow above and below the drive. Works really well, up until you want to move the machine

 

Tried a few machines with the following results. CPU, Memory & OS all included. Strange results with Vista though as it finished loop 19 way before it reported the test finished. Agree with whats been said though as it is not multi threaded, so not really a representation of modern muti-core CPU's. If it was, would be interesting to see what the results would be on the biggest machine that I have access to!

Media Centre - XP2000+ 1Gb XP MCE- 1m20s
Laptop - Core2 Duo T7600 2Gb XP Pro - 22s
Home Desktop - Core2 Duo 6600 4Gb Vista Business - 44s (Loop 19 22s)
Work Desktop - Core2 Quad 6600 4Gb Vista Ultimate - 37s (Loop 19 22s)
Work Server - Dual Xeon 5160 8Gb Server 2003 - 17s

The last 3 were on RDP sessions.

 

Coolermaster Cosmos:

Coolermaster RC-1000 Cosmos Silent Full Tower Case

A bit large but very well laid out. Esp front panel with on/off reset, usb, fwire, eSATA and sound ports on top in eay reach.

Simon

 

just done this on my new set up and got 15 sec

intel core duo 2 E8400
2 gig ram
500w power
ait x1900xt card

not to bad i think

 

After I had put some coal into my aging machine, I managed.....



1 minute 2seconds hey ho

Geezer

 

xp2600 athlon

running 2.15ghz 1gb ram

52 seconds

 

Not the best app for testing performance of a box as it only ramps up one core.. and its a 32bit app.. was running it over RDP too.

4x Dual Core Opteron 8220
64Gb Ram
Windows 2003 Server R2 Enterprise Edition x64



Anybody want to try Disk I/O and see if they can compete in IO Meter tests..

Before you accept that challenge, I can use SSD's or highend SAN's

 

Thanks for that, I forgot to read that post of your initially

Looks nice, not sure about the handles on top, but it still looks good.

 

My scorchingly fast 8yr old Athlon 850mhz desktop managed an incredible 2m52s. Is this a record?