Ways to speed up Maxwell

Ways to speed up Maxwell#303181

By Steven Houtzager - Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:04 am

- Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:04 am #303181

I just downloaded the benchmark test and found that it took my machine 20min 49sec to render it out. Hmmm. The fastest was under 5 minutes. This is what I have.

Mac Pro 2 chips 4 cores total
2.66Mhz
Intel Xeon
10GB 667Mhz DDR2 RAM
latest Mac OS

The single chips got 20minutes. So what can i do to quicken the pace??

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Re: Ways to speed up Maxwell#303183

By ivox3 - Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:09 am

- Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:09 am #303183

New Mac Pro.

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Re: Ways to speed up Maxwell#303253

By Bubbaloo - Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:50 pm

- Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:50 pm #303253

Did you set threads to 0? Were all cores working at 100%?

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Re: Ways to speed up Maxwell#303257

By Steven Houtzager - Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:06 pm

- Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:06 pm #303257

Yup. I then set the threads to 4 and it had the same time.

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Re: Ways to speed up Maxwell#303258

By Bubbaloo - Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:13 pm

- Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:13 pm #303258

Sounds like that's all you're going to get from a couple of dual core Xeons.

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Re: Ways to speed up Maxwell#303263

By numerobis - Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:24 pm

- Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:24 pm #303263

if this is a mac pro with 2x Dual Core 2.66GHz then the result looks ok - here is a similar benchwell entry:

wuji___2007 Mac Pro Quad____2.66___7 GB___1.6 (32bit)___OSX___22m 2s___486.94

Maxwell 3.2.1.2 - Win 7 x64

Re: Ways to speed up Maxwell#303309

By bejack - Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:00 pm

- Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:00 pm #303309

Even though it may sound silly...

try to remove 2gb of ram so that you have 2x4gb on the raiserboards...

about one and a half year ago Barefeets posted a benchmark where it was shown, that Apple has got a leak in the boardlayout of some MacPro´s dealing with the handling of ram modules.

I did the same to my MacPro 8core 3.0ghz and the benchwell scene runs faster with 2gb less...

Steven Houtzager wrote:I just downloaded the benchmark test and found that it took my machine 20min 49sec to render it out. Hmmm. The fastest was under 5 minutes. This is what I have.

Mac Pro 2 chips 4 cores total
2.66Mhz
Intel Xeon
10GB 667Mhz DDR2 RAM
latest Mac OS

The single chips got 20minutes. So what can i do to quicken the pace??