Thread: Trying hard for that record SuperPi 1M run ? Here are few tips.

EDIT : Added 10th tip.

Nice talking, now throw over that golden chip here
Nice info BTW.Any difference between XP and Vista, and 32 bit and 64 bit ?

Not much difference between OS to be honest. I have found that you can get almost same superpi score on windows 2k, 2003, xp, vista.
But due to its low profile people prefer XP for benching. There are lots of things that happens in vista boot which might not let the unstable system reach desktop many times.
Atleast disable indexing / prefetch and make sure you are not benching during scheduled defrag cycle or disable it.

You can also Try setting the priority of Superpi to Realtime. I havent found it impacting the scores too much to be honest.

my system bsods when i do this any idea why.. the moment i set priority before even running the bench it reboots. it wasnt at a very high speed or anything so was just curious. above normal and high etc it runs fine

Originally Posted by bottle

my system bsods when i do this any idea why.. the moment i set priority before even running the bench it reboots. it wasnt at a very high speed or anything so was just curious. above normal and high etc it runs fine

Probably blocking up too much of resources, besides I haven't found it to be that helpful as Funky said.

Awesome work Funky, some nice knowledge for the beginners!

Tip 11 : Try running the superpi.exe from a virtual drive in your RAM. Might give you that slight extra edge.

Hope you don't mind Funky

you shared those tips funky, , not good, but i think this should be made a sticky coz its gonna come handy for many. Tip 2 and 7 i never knew so will certianly try those in my next run, oh ho but with explorer killed how will tip 2 come in handy???

I dont see anything wrong in sharing these things. People will eventually figure this out. but those who have the hardware available with them now and are ready to give it shot might find some helpful info.
I have never felt like keeping knowledge to myself. More the merrier. More people start pushing their pcs, better it will be. People will keep pushing each other.
About explorer killing and theme, check yourself. I dont kill explorer anymore with this theme. I tried it a while back didnt make any difference to my score. Killing explorer used to benifit a bit before i switched to noir.

Sticky decision is upto mods.

sticky'd keep adding your tips people

Excellent stuff. Repped
Will add a few more soon


Edit---have to spread before I can rep u again

This one is quite debatable, but personally i have seen a dip of .1 second which does matter.
Tip : Before starting super pi, copy a large file more than 500MB from the OS drive to any other drive on your computer and vice versa.

and since you already have thrown the list out then let me add one of the most critical one(though following Tip 8 and 9 properly will give you almost similar results)
Tip : Install a fresh copy of Windows and then follow the steps to optimise your OS before trying to bench.

Funky one serious query here, Tip 10, are you talking about 45nm processors???? coz till E 6600's and Q6600's memory timings did use to matter a lot, atleast for serious clockers, no idea with the large 6Mb cache processors yet, will find that as well in a couple of days.

Yup new 6MB cache means the 1M calculations does not really need system memory. I have found the difference between 5-5-5-15 and 4-4-4-8 to be less than 0.01th of a second.

For my AMD 4800+ with 2GB DDR2 800MHz ram is 36secs OK ?(at stock)

u know funky is right dedicating one core to the program works better

with CPU00 i got 32.075 and CPU01 i got 32.956