[URL="http://mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=350072&postcount=594"]This[/URL] is my haswell benchmark.

[QUOTE=LaurV;362175]Not really... :razz:[/QUOTE]

"Not really." was a reply to the question just above it.

Q: Wasn't there something working in the background forna while?
A: Not really.

I agree with LaurV regarding hyperthreading.

Running four thread instead of two will net you absolutely no benefits and an extra 10C temperature-wise.

Running two workers on two threads and leaving the other two idle will probably increase your performance when running Prime + something else, like a video, however.

[QUOTE=TheMawn;362222]I agree with LaurV regarding hyperthreading.

Running four thread instead of two will net you absolutely no benefits and an extra 10C temperature-wise.

Running two workers on two threads and leaving the other two idle will probably increase your performance when running Prime + something else, like a video, however.[/QUOTE]

I leave hyperthreading on for exactly that reason. I don't even noticed mprime running.

Maybe late, but interesting.

Z87 motherboard reviews on Tom's Hardware


[URL="http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/z87-motherboard-review,3618.html"]Z87 Hits The High End: Four Sub-$300 Motherboards
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[URL="http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/z87-haswell-motherboard-review,3524.html"]Five Z87 Motherboards Under $220, Reviewed
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[URL="http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/z87-express-motherboard-review,3582.html"]Fast And Cheap? Five Sub-$160 Z87 Motherboards For Enthusiasts
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[URL="http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/z87-motherboard-roundup,3656.html"]Five Z87 Motherboards For Your Mini-ITX Build, Reviewed
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[QUOTE=kracker;364235][URL="http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/z87-motherboard-roundup,3656.html"]Five Z87 Motherboards For Your Mini-ITX Build, Reviewed
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Hah. 12-phase VRM on a Mini-ITX when the second-best is 6 and the rest are 4. That's why I like ASUS the best. I still filter out non-ASUS boards when I look around.

[QUOTE=TheMawn;364295]Hah. 12-phase VRM on a Mini-ITX when the second-best is 6 and the rest are 4. That's why I like ASUS the best. I still filter out non-ASUS boards when I look around.[/QUOTE]

Call me a ASUS hater, but I see no reason for 12-phase VRM. 4 phase in my opinion is enough if you are not overclocking, and I don't see anyone overclocking super-heavily in a [I]mini-atx[/I] rig.

Also, ASUS is expensive as hell on "budget" motherboards compared to other MB's of the same features. High end can't be beat though.

[QUOTE=Prime95;348791]The most important consideration in a quad core is the speed of your memory. The second most important consideration in a quad core is the speed of your memory.[/QUOTE]

Wouldn't it be nice to have the most important memory settings be included in the benchmarks? Like the amount of memorychannels in use, all their speed parameters etc.

That would make it more easy to compare and see how people have obtained their power computers.

[QUOTE=tha;364420]Wouldn't it be nice to have the most important memory settings be included in the benchmarks? Like the amount of memorychannels in use, all their speed parameters etc..[/QUOTE]

Do you have any nice portable (Windows / Linux / Mac OS X / FreeBSD) code I can use to gather that information?

I am not so sure a cross platform approach would be the best since it might be too much overhead. I am not an expert system programmer, but from what I googled, and others could do better, here is where I would start:

(There seems to be something about doing this cross-platform at [url]http://nadeausoftware.com/[/url] but their server is down which may be a indication of the current state of their software)

Linux and BSD: [url]http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/[/url]
Windows: [url]http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/dmidecode.htm[/url]

The two above together may be seen as one notch below cross platform.

For OSX it seems to be recompiled at [url]http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2208&hl=dmidecod&st=0[/url] but it doesn't appear to be maintained well.

For OSX running the command system_profiler might do the trick.

Cross platform for Python, no idea if this would fit in with Prime95 and MPrime:
[url]http://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/detail?id=311[/url]

Hope this helps, but my operational experience with retrieving this info across the platform is minimal.

dmidecode on Linux (and probably BSD) requires root privileges. There is no other easy way to get the information though.