that happens to be my machine. It is a dual socket Opteron 280 which makes it a 4 way box. Now when a 2.8 p4 reports a higher RAC than a 64 bit AMD with hypertransport memory access then I would through stones at the P4. Now do you think that 8 hours of CPU time on this machine is not worth 220 points then you just have the admins say the word and I will be gone! This machine is clean.

I think you have overreacted! When he said that something is strange, i think he wasn't acusing you of cheating, instead claiming that something is odd!

If you say that you get for 8 hours 220 credits, i for a 24h run omn my PC got only 167. The strange thing here is that benchmarking on AMD is highly inflated! For example see the benchmark on your Pentium and let it run a WU for 8 Hours and you'll see that you will get about 60 credits only! I don't not know what cause this discrepancy!

Intel processors are better at multimedia, AMD processors better at pure number crunching. We're number crunching - so an AMD processor is better at it than an intel.

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My 754 pin Athlon 64 (Stock speed of 2ghz) 3000+ is getting 250-260 points per 24hour job; (Running 24/7, without graphics, as a service under winxp sp2 /w 1gig cl2 ddr 3200 ram).

For each of the DC projects, certain cpus do better than others. Some of the larger teams make up charts of the production by various cpus so you can find the sweet spots for your next cruncher purchase for that DC project.

And as impressive as some of the cpus are - the gpus in some of the high end video cards are going to be even more impressive for some DC projects. (The quote of 71 seconds for the client run on the next to last ATI chipset, vs 1800? seconds to run the same data run on the cpu.) Suddenly, we'll see high end crunchers not with overclocked expensive cpus.. but expensive video cards instead. :)

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