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How fast can your computer calculate Pi

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  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
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    bingo_bango wrote: »
    4m 08.1s

    P4 2.4GHz & 1Gb RAM.

    I think I've got the slowest machine for FPU calcs then?

    With a 2.4 Ghz it should be WAY faster than that. Sounds to me like your either infected or you have a serious hardware issue or something running in the background
    :idea:
  • HappyIdiotTalk
    HappyIdiotTalk Posts: 1,443 Forumite
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    Vista 64bit
    Intel Q6600 Quad Core (overclocked)
    4GB Ram

    Interestingly this only uses a small amount of my processors available power. I was expecting it to consume all available resources...
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  • spud17
    spud17 Posts: 4,441 Forumite
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    edited 24 April 2009 at 10:35PM
    aliEnRIK wrote: »
    With a 2.4 Ghz it should be WAY faster than that. Sounds to me like your either infected or you have a serious hardware issue or something running in the background

    Agreed, something not quite right.

    My Athlon XP2400 (2.0Ghz) and 736mb of SDRAM took about 1min 21secs.

    The above was using XPHome.

    Just tried the Linux version,using Mint, same machine, dual booting and result was 85secs.
    Move along, nothing to see.
  • Rowan1946
    Rowan1946 Posts: 143 Forumite
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    edited 24 April 2009 at 10:51PM
    my computers so rubbish just now it wont open clickys,, dont know whats up,, Doh,,
    Quad core E6600 2.6hz, 4gb ram by the way, XP 32 bit

    Edit

    22.36 after a reboot
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  • globalds
    globalds Posts: 9,431 Forumite
    maybe time this thread was re-titled " The virus catcher "

    Any machine that doesn't achieve a certain speed is more than likely running something in the back ground that it shouldn't.
  • Jakg
    Jakg Posts: 2,267 Forumite
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    15 - 16 seconds - 2.13 GHz Intel Xeon X3210 Quad Core.

    WR is something like 9 seconds...
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  • spud17
    spud17 Posts: 4,441 Forumite
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    Any machine that doesn't achieve a certain speed is more than likely running something in the back ground that it shouldn't.
    I can see it appearing in 'riks ever growing copy/paste replies very soon. :D
    Move along, nothing to see.
  • chaddy7604
    chaddy7604 Posts: 20,469 Forumite
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    globalds wrote: »
    maybe time this thread was re-titled " The virus catcher "

    Any machine that doesn't achieve a certain speed is more than likely running something in the back ground that it shouldn't.

    so what is this magical 'certain speed'? :p
  • fox2319
    fox2319 Posts: 978 Forumite
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    Q6600 with 4GB RAM (3 useable).
    SuperPi - 23.365 s
    PiFast - 1.91 s

    Bit of a difference there. Is PiFast optimised for multicore or is it just down to the method used?
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  • tomstickland
    tomstickland Posts: 19,538 Forumite
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    How do I run this program?
    All I get is a window opening that says "not calculated" about 16 times.
    How do I select 1 million?
    Happy chappy
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