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Ways to speed up Maxwell
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:04 am
by Steven Houtzager
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??
Re: Ways to speed up Maxwell
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:09 am
by ivox3
New Mac Pro.
Re: Ways to speed up Maxwell
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:50 pm
by Bubbaloo
Did you set threads to 0? Were all cores working at 100%?
Re: Ways to speed up Maxwell
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:06 pm
by Steven Houtzager
Yup. I then set the threads to 4 and it had the same time.
Re: Ways to speed up Maxwell
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:13 pm
by Bubbaloo
Sounds like that's all you're going to get from a couple of dual core Xeons.
Re: Ways to speed up Maxwell
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:24 pm
by numerobis
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
Re: Ways to speed up Maxwell
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:00 pm
by bejack
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??