Posts by Sarah Middleton HS

1) Message boards : Number crunching : I3-380M vs. I7-720QM question (Message 79815) Posted 28 Mar 2016 by Sarah Middleton HS Post: Hi there. newbie question please. I'm running rosetta@home on several dedicated computers for a couple of weeks now. Computers in question are more or less identical, Dell computers from 2010. Both running W10 pro 64bit, both have SSD's with plenty of free space. both are running with 100% CPU and time allocation. One is 4GB RAM and i3-380M, the second one is 8GB RAM and i7-720QM processor. For two straight weeks both produced a similar amount of credits ( 11,600 on i7 and 11.400 on i3). RAC is 590 on i7 and 625on i3. results are 484 on i7 and 141 on i3. From this data it looks like 4cores of I3-380M are doing a better job than 8 cores of I7-720QM. it doesn't make any sense to me. Can anyone explain please why i7 CPU is performing so poorly? Sincerely, Sarah