severe under performance in new computer please advise

[dvornik]

Is it a fresh install of Win2k (or XP?) with all drivers (chipset and so on) installed?

[GSuRfer]

what speed is your system drive? Which type of raid are you using??

[PolyMangler]

GSuRfer- the 10k rpm 18g drive is the system drive
the raid is stripped drives stripped by windows
or would that be called a stripped set?

dvornik- yep fresh install on windows with all drives and such

[Aearon]

mhh i have no clear idea. have you tried loading the bios defaults? maybe there's something wrong with the settings.

otherwise check some more benchmarks like sisoft sandra to isolate the problem.

[PolyMangler]

fist- The Bios settings are not too far off from the defaults. i think the only this we changed was the hyperthreading option to enabled. Just to be sure i'll reset them and check out sisoft sandra and let ya know what we find out....thanks for all the suggestions guys keep em coming!:beer:

[PolyMangler]

resetting the bios shaved 20 sec off the bench mark time. I tested the same scene on a 1.8gig HP at it rendered at 58.8, this computer did it at 59...so right now it's behaving as a regular 1.8 processor computer....oddly enough when i restricted LightWave to using only one processor the scene rendered in 48 sec. a full 10 sec faster then 1.8 gig..seeing how this is a dual 2.2 xeon i'd expect one of them to out-preform a 1.8...so is this an indication that one of my prossors may be bad? or somehow not being utililzed properly through windows?

edit: i just downloaded fresh diagnose, a benchmark prog. and I got the blue screen of death when i ran it

[Aearon]

sounds more like there is something wrong with the board :shrug:

i don't know if this is possible... can you just use one cpu on the mobo (ie test them seperately, each of the cpu's and each of the sockets)

do you use windows xp btw? you need it because of HT.

[GregHess]

First....

Press Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows.

Go to task manager...

Go to performance tab...

Make sure their are 4 cpu's present.

If their aren't, something is wrong, and it needs to be fixed.


Also check that you actually setup the bios, and aren't just running default values. By default the CPU's will run at the slowest FSB possible. So if those were 2.4B Xeon's on an E7505 chipset, they'd be running at Dual 1.8 instead of 2.4 if you failed to setup the processors correctly.

Make sure your running Windows XP SP1 and Hyperthreading is enabled in the bios.

Download cinemabench 2003 and post your scores.

www.maxon.net

[imashination]

The Cinebench multi-CPU score of a dual 2.4 Xeon is around the 500 mark. Anything lower than 450 and you have something very wrong with the machine.

[PolyMangler]

Okay i didn't see an absoulute score given when i tested it but here's the results:

CINEBENCH 2003 v1
****************************************************

Tester : Bruce

Processor : Cube
MHz : 2.2
Number of CPUs : 4
Operating System : Xp

Graphics Card : GeForce4
Resolution : <fill this out>
Color Depth : <fill this out>

****************************************************

Rendering (Single CPU): 155 CB-CPU
Rendering (Multiple CPU): 336 CB-CPU

Multiprocessor Speedup: 2.16

Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 165 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting) : 744 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting) : 884 CB-GFX

OpenGL Speedup: 5.36

****************************************************

that was with hyperthreading enabled too

so how does this measure up?

[GregHess]

Processor : IBM IntelliStation
MHz : 2ghz xeon
Number of CPUs : 2
Operating System : win 2000 pro

Graphics Card : NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600
Resolution : 1280x1024
Color Depth : 32 bit
****************************************************

Rendering (Single CPU): 197 CB-CPU - 2 min 13.9 sec
Rendering (Multiple CPU): 363 CB-CPU - 1 min 12.6 sec


Tester : Magnus

Processor : Intel P4 2x2.4 XEON
MHz : 2x2.4
Number of CPUs : 2
Operating System : WIN XP PRO

Graphics Card : quadro 4 900 xgl
Resolution : 2048x768 TWO MONITORS
Color Depth : 32

**************************************************
**

Rendering (Single CPU): 237 CB-CPU
Rendering (Multiple CPU): 446 CB-CPU

Tester : Erik

Processor : PIV
MHz : 3.06GHz
Number of CPUs : 2
Operating System : WinXP SP1

Graphics Card : GeForce4Ti 128MB
Resolution : <fill this out>
Color Depth : <fill this out>

**************************************************
**

Rendering (Single CPU): 306 CB-CPU (86.1sec)
Rendering (Multiple CPU): 361 CB-CPU (73.0 sec)


So thats a yes. Your system is definitely running below spec.

[PolyMangler]

k well i took greg's advice and went into the bios...the cpu clock was set to 16 and i boosted it up to 24...after that i benchmarked it and it marked up at 500....also ran sandra and it's happier with that setting too, so thanks all for the help it was most helpful in figuring this out....we stil have the photoshop issue, where it won't update or work fast in it but i think that's just some program setting we're missing....

muchos gracias all

Bruce

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