That's 1,000 credits since YESTERDAY!!!! Wow that is fast!! I have an intel P4 T2300 running at 1.66ghz and your i7 measures twice as fast in both floating and integer scores. You are also doing units in about an hour or so, mine is doing them in over twice as long!

Keep in mind the i7 is a quad core and is processing 2 threads per core or 8 work units at a time. I was definitely over 2000 in the first 24 hours and I think around 2500 or so. there was a short period where it wasn't crunching at all. It will take a few days to know for sure what it can do but so far am pleased with it. I may then bring my iMac core2duo 3.06 over and my macmini.

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*MY* experience is that the i7 is faster than my Q9300 ... of course I got the i7 940 (mid range of what Frys was selling) and it runs at 2.94 GHz while the Q9300 runs at 2.5 GHz ...

However I would have expected HT to make a significant impact on speed of tasks on the individual virtual processors. But with the limited experience I have had to this point, and because of the variability of the tasks issued by almost all projects (and other factors) it is hard to make a reliable comparison.

But, based on my limited observations each of the virtual CPUs on the i7 out perform the individual cores on the Q9300 ... I suspect that the L3 cache is more the cause than the rather small increase in clock speed.

Back in the early days of HT we had this discussion a lot with many not liking HT because the wall clock time increased for task execution. They could not grasp the fact that though the individual task time was longer the throughput, the number of tasks processed per unit time was better with HT...

So it seems to me to be the case here ...

I will also note that long term experience with HT enabled computers (I now have 3 again, two Dell dual Xeons, one 32 bit the other 64 bit and the i7) is that it seems to work better the more diverse the task load ... in other words, running a more varied collection of projects ... running all cores on just one project seems to not work as well ... which, understanding the internals of how HT works makes sense ...

If you were to look at my i7 (named W2) on any of the projects to which I contribute you can take a gander at how the machine is doing ... I did SOME Rosetta but I have had bad experience with the application and dropped Rosetta to only one machine where I don't seem to have issues (Mac Pro, dual 4 core Xeons) ...

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Shaktai:

Thanks for adding the i7 Core. I want to buy a new system and I think i7 is the way to go. I love all of the inexpensive RAM and systemboards for intel 775 but i7 looks really good.

Can you bring those other computers over soon? R@H can use every process you have!

Thanks again and keep crunching.

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Thx!

Paul

Shaktai:

Thanks for adding the i7 Core. I want to buy a new system and I think i7 is the way to go. I love all of the inexpensive RAM and systemboards for intel 775 but i7 looks really good.

Can you bring those other computers over soon? R@H can use every process you have!

Thanks again and keep crunching.

Still early to see how it levels out, but so far it looks like the i7 is doing over 3300 per day.

BOINC STATS
http://boincstats.com/stats/user_graph.php?pr=rosetta&id=701

BOINC SYNERGY
http://www.boincsynergy.com/stats/boinc-stats.php?id=701&project=rah

TEAM MACNN STATS
http://teamstats.macnn.com/rosetta1/stats.php?page=p1&UID=293

This is more then I expected.

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PLEASE, i've already spent too much $$$, i don't want to have to purchase an x58 mobo right now! But, it hurts me to look at an i7 920 just sitting in a box...

Still early to see how it levels out, but so far it looks like the i7 is doing over 3300 per day.

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This is more then I expected.

PLEASE, i've already spent too much $$$, i don't want to have to purchase an x58 mobo right now! But, it hurts me to look at an i7 920 just sitting in a box...

Still early to see how it levels out, but so far it looks like the i7 is doing over 3300 per day.

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This is more then I expected.

Well then next time you are near DC call me and you can put it in my grubby little fingers and I will buy the board and make it work!

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I thought you were a unlimited source of $$$ with that big farm of yours.
Glad to see you can put your new purchase to use.

PLEASE, i've already spent too much $$$, i don't want to have to purchase an x58 mobo right now! But, it hurts me to look at an i7 920 just sitting in a box...

Still early to see how it levels out, but so far it looks like the i7 is doing over 3300 per day.

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This is more then I expected.

lol, i don't know about quite that, but rumor is that tomorrow frys.com will have the i7 920 on sale for $230. hopefully, free shipping and no tax. that's a steal for this cpu!

Well then next time you are near DC call me and you can put it in my grubby little fingers and I will buy the board and make it work!

lol, i don't know about quite that, but rumor is that tomorrow frys.com will have the i7 920 on sale for $230. hopefully, free shipping and no tax. that's a steal for this cpu!

Well then next time you are near DC call me and you can put it in my grubby little fingers and I will buy the board and make it work!

Today, the 2nd, it is $330.00

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yupper, looks like it is an in-store "brick-and-motar" sale.

sux for those of us on east coast with no frys around....

and i was off by $0.01, it's $229.99

frys newspaper advertisement

Well, for the three days before we ran out of work (which has started to flow again) my Core i7 950 (2.93ghz) was averaging a little over 3600 a day with hyperthreading turned on. Seems pretty decent to me. There is no overclocking. One of those days though is the day it ran out of work, so that average might be on the low side.

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with the i7 920 i'll probably try for an oc. supposed to be almost idiot-proof to 3.5, and with a little effort 4.0 can be hit.

do you mean you have a 940 or 965? haven't heard of an i7 950.

if you have the 965, its unlocked, and you can oc like a banshee! 5.0+ anyone ?!

EDIT ---> Nevermind, answered my own question, the i7 940 is clocked at 2.93

with the i7 920 i'll probably try for an oc. supposed to be almost idiot-proof to 3.5, and with a little effort 4.0 can be hit.

do you mean you have a 940 or 965? haven't heard of an i7 950.

if you have the 965, its unlocked, and you can oc like a banshee! 5.0+ anyone ?!

EDIT ---> Nevermind, answered my own question, the i7 940 is clocked at 2.93

Duh. I was tired when I posted. That should be the 940, and I don't have any plans right now to overclock. Would need to upgrade fans and power supply and don't want to do that now. It is working fine so not willing to mess with it. Wish I had the 965 but that is out of price range. Could put 2 920's online for what that costs. Good luck with your overclocking though, a lot of people are getting some really good stuff out of them.

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Interesting to see the top computer is an i7 920 with 4223.20 RAC at time of posting (11:40 on Jan 5th GMT)

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The Intel I7s are undoubtedly great processors and the coming thing, but I think they are a poor value choice at the current prices. Come back in 6 months and look at them then.

The latest issue of Australian PC User magazine has a number of articles on upgrades. Did you know that a 45nm. Intel E5200 (about US $84.00) can be overclocked to 4 GHz? In PC User's tests an OC'ed I7 920 (3.6GHz) was about 20% faster than the 4GHz E5200.

But the I7 retails for about US $570 for the chip alone. Add to that the extra costs of expensive mother boards and DDR3 memory and I don't think the I7 currently makes sense.

LM

I purchased my i7 920 for $225, and posted a link where they could be had for $229.99.

Should have grabbed the Asus p6t for $210 when I had the chance.

And with hyperthreading, thats 8 cores for crunching !!!

How much extra electricity would you be using to run 4 separate pc's with the e5200's, instead of a single one for the i7?

i7 may have higher inital fixed cost, but longer term variable costs ($ per credit crunched) will be cheaper.

the proof is in the pudding. if an i7 920 is capable of Rosie RAC 4223.20, show me an e5200 that can get within 20% of that !!!

and i7 920's are commonly oc'd to 4.0GHz, not jst 3.6 GHz...

Hey Mikey, do you like it?!

if you're in the dc area, there is a MicroCenter in Beltway / Rockville, Maryland:

Intel Quad Core i7 Processor 920 $230 Micro Center B&M

Micro Center has the Intel® Boxed Core® i7 Processor 920 for $229.99 + Tax

In-store pickup only


EDIT --> And a MicroCenter in Fairfax, Virginia

lol, i don't know about quite that, but rumor is that tomorrow frys.com will have the i7 920 on sale for $230. hopefully, free shipping and no tax. that's a steal for this cpu!

Well then next time you are near DC call me and you can put it in my grubby little fingers and I will buy the board and make it work!

Today, the 2nd, it is $330.00

Hey Mikey, do you like it?!

if you're in the dc area, there is a MicroCenter in Beltway / Rockville, Maryland:

Intel Quad Core i7 Processor 920 $230 Micro Center B&M

Micro Center has the Intel® Boxed Core® i7 Processor 920 for $229.99 + Tax

In-store pickup only


EDIT --> And a MicroCenter in Fairfax, Virginia

I work near the Fairfax store but here on the 11th it is not on their site! I would have gone out on Monday and gotten one when I was out and about!! I have a coupon for a local computer store, http://www.gtcomp.com/, they won't have the latest and greatest in hardware or prices but I deal with them because they know me and sometimes give me a discount. I have bought many, many parts from them over the years!!

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seems like they raised the price by $50.00, showing as $279.99 + tax now...

seems like they raised the price by $50.00, showing as $279.99 + tax now...

I saw that, I am not buying at that price either. With a mb, memory and maybe even a case needed too this seems to be out of my price range right now.

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