Gigabyte GA-8KNXP (P4-3.4C+)

Pentium	/	Penitum	/	Xeon
PC2006(Xeon3.73Gx2/L2-2MBx2)	/	Benchmarking	/	Video File Study
GA-8KNXP(P4-3.4C+)	/	P4C800 Deluxe(P4-3.2C+)	/	PC-DL(Xeon3.2G-1MB)
P4C800-E Deluxe(P4-3.2C)	/	IC7(P4-2.4B)	/	P4C800 Deluxe(P4-2.53G)
P4P800 Deluxe(P4-3.0C+)	/	8IG1000MK(P4-2.8C+)	/	D865GLCL(P4-2.8C)
D865GLCL(C-2.6G PC3200)	/	D865GLCL(C-2.6G)	/	GA-8IG1000 Pro(P4-2.8C)
GA-8IG1000 Pro(P4-2.4C)	/	P4S800D-E Deluxe(P4-2.8C)	/	D845EBT(P4-2.53G)
P4BGL-MX(C-2.2G+)	/	D845GBV(C-1.7G)	/

Gigabyte GA-8KNXP (P4-3.4C+)

I got most stable power supply unit than ever, Seasonic SS-600HT. It's really good PSU!!

I have no experience for RAID0 with 4 drives. I want to check it how good it is.
I'm expecting for multi-core CPU release and I have a plan "Migration."
My current primary PC, P4-2.53GHz will retire and this GA-8KNXP will be primary PC.
And if multi-core CPU is released, then I will have a plan to build it.

(Previous Comments)
First of all, my first target was "1hr DV moving picture should be burnt to DVD in 1hr without any hardware encoding." I was struggling with a rendering from DV-AVI to MPEG and VOB first. (I can say "still struggling.") However, I found the function of MPEG direct sampling from DV camera. Then, the redering/burn time was shrunk totally, from aroud 80 min to 20 min with 4x DVD.
I was so happy at that time...

But, but, but... I was awared to watch the DVD... The picture quality has been changed. I guess the software detects automatically the capability whether my machine can handle 1:1 sampling & MPEG rendering at same time. Then, the answer is, of course, "NO," because the duration of rendering is taking around 70 min out of above 80 min.
Please do not laugh at me, do not say "It is peace of cake, just should buy DVR with DVD burner." It's not my target...

Anyway, anyhow... thus, I am still going to improve Gigabyte GA-8KNXP with FSB=800MHz. And I changed KHX3500 to TWINX10244000PT to get better O/C and RAM stability. Finally, I was end 2.8C with 3.307GHz FSB=944MHz.
However, I could not make my first target.

So, I gave up on 2.8C, and I decided to change to 3.2C.

Then, I got 3.2C, and it is good so far. I am starting to overclock it and now I achieved 3.654GHz FSB=912MHz. I checked an actual performance to input DV camera with MPEG2 encoding and it was better than before, however it took around 90 minutes. I don't like MPEG 2...

Now I got 3.4C, and I decided the setting is 3.809GHz/448MHz. I feel always that high end CPU in the early term is not ready for OC, because a capability is around a little above 10%. I checked an actual MPEG2 encoding and it was improved from around 90min to 75min. It's OK, but I'm not satisfied yet.

Then, today. I "slightly" modified the cooling system from "air" to "liquid." Because my family got many big complaints for noisy loud fans. The water cooling system is quite nice, not so loud and staying cool temp. My family gave me the approval to turn on this PC during they stay at home. It's good anyway.

[Reference]

Description	Price	Qty	Total
P4-3.4GHz 800MHz FSB	$420.00	1	$420.00
P4-3.2GHz 800MHz FSB	$394.00	1	$394.00
P4-2.8GHz 800MHz FSB	$289.00	1	$289.00
Corsair Xtreme Water Cooling System HydroCool200	$211.00	1	$211.00
Thermalright SLK-900-U	$45.00	1	$45.00
TWINX10244000PT	$339.00	1	$339.00
Kingston KHX3500/512 512MB PC3500	$140.00	2	$280.00
Kingston KHX3500/256 256MB PC3500	$66.00	2	$132.00
Gigabyte GA-8KNXP	$225.35	1	$225.35
Deskstar 7K250 250GB 7200rpm 8MB HDS722525VLAT80	$144.83	4	$579.32
Raptor Enterprise WD360GD S-ATA 36.7GB 10000RPM 8MB	$133.00	4	$532.00
Hitachi Deskstar 180GXP 120GB 8MB	$115.00	2	$230.00
Radeon 9600 AGP 128MB	$160.19	1	$160.19
All In Wonder 9700 Pro AGP 128MB	$346.00	1	$346.00
DVD+/-/RW/CDRW LG GSA-4120B	$97.00	1	$97.00
Sony Internal DVD+/-RW Drive DRU500AX	$303.00	1	$303.00
Lite-On LTD-163D 16X INT IDE DVD - Black	$42.29	1	$42.29
FD	$14.50	1	$14.50
ANTEC P160	$124.00	1	$124.00
Highest Xaser II A5000A Plus ATX Tower	$125.00	1	$125.00
Owltech Seasonic SS-600HT, 600W, Active PFC	$141.00	1	$141.00
Thermaltake Silent PurePower, 420W, Active PFC	$68.00	1	$68.00
	*Modified*		*$2,353.65*

Latest

3rd

2nd

Original

[Latest Results]
N/A

[3rd Results on Apr04,2004]
It's 12% OC. (3.809G/448MHz)
My dream was that the clock reached up to 4GHz... I am always disapointed when I tested a top end CPU. (but I know the reason by myself)

[Update Results on Dec15,2003]
I tried to overclock 15% up again, but it's not done. I think the problem is memory capability, because of PC3500(433MHz) cannot catch up Memory clock 454MHz. If I use PC4000(500MHz), I can reach around 20%.

HDBENCH Ver3.40 beta6
Nothing significant.

Sandra2003
File system Buffered Write is totally down, I have no idea why it's happened. And Average Access Time is changed to 5ms.

[Update Results on Oct25,2003]
I tried to overclock 15% up, but it's not well. I decided to go with FSB=226MHz x4, Memory=452MHz, VCORE=1.6V and VMEM=+0.3V.

HDBENCH Ver3.40 beta6
I checked the overclock up to 13%
It looks so far so good.

Sandra2003
Same as HDBENCH results except Dhrystone ALU. It's little bit weaker than 10% up, almost 5% up's data. I have no idea why it's caused.

[Update Results on Aug30,2003]
First of all, Gigabyte beats ASUS totally. I don't know if it's just "benchmarking software structure," but it is.

HDBENCH Ver3.40 beta6
I checked the overclock up to 10%, because of 20% is OK to boot up Windows, but it's very unstable condition.
At 5% overclock, it looks nice so far. However, HD READ is getting worse at 5% overclock. So I decided to use 10% overclock.

Sandra2003
Overclock makes CPU & HD performance up, however Memory is the exception. I have no idea why it's happened.
Anyway, the results are OK to me. I go with 10% overclock.

[Original Results]
HDBENCH Ver3.40 beta6
About memory speed, it's top level and excellent on this data, but I cannot feel it very much under just normal use.
However, rendering time for moving picture is incredible. To compare with D845EBT with P4-2.53GHz/FSB533MHz, it took 4 hours and more to burn DVD with TV capture AVI file done by All-in-Wonder 9700 Pro.
This machine can do just 2.5 hours. And also, to covert from DV-AVI file to WMV, it took 40 minutes with P4-2.53G. This can do 10 minutes!
I guess this results are due to Hyper Threading, dual DDR and FSB800MHz.
And I compared this file system with previous project, D845EBT RAID0. The differences are O/S (D845EBT: XP Home vs 8KNXP: XP-J Home), RAID chip and management software (D845EBT: Promise Technology PDC20267 vs 8KNXP: ITE GigaRAID IT8212F), and array figure. (D845EBT: 2HDs to 1 port RAID vs 8KNXP: 2HDs to 2 different ports)
There are small differences, but not so much. I want to try to add another 2HD into 8KNXP because IT8212F can handle up to 4 HDs. (Read: D845EBT-78951 vs 8KNXP-73563, Write: 76133 vs 80820, RandomR: 18720 vs 22594, RandomW 36196 vs 34841)

Sandra2003
I can say there is HT effect, because of it's between P4 2.8GHz and 3.06GHz without HT.
Memory speed is OK, 31.6% up with dual DDR (4.2125MB/s) compared with original PC3200.
About File system, I compared with D845EBT's RAID0 results. I don't know why 2HDs to 1 port beats 2HDs to 2 different ports. (D845EBT-45104 kB/s vs 8KNXP-42125 kB/s)

	2.8C								3.2C		3.4C
*HDBENCH*	Normal	OC5%	OC5%	OC10%	OC11%	OC18%	OC18% F7b	OC18% F7b	Normal	3.564G 456MHz	Normal	3.809G 448MHz
			420MHz		444MHz	472MHz	472MHz	472MHz CAS2.5	F7b CAS2.5	F7b CAS2.5	F10 CAS2.5	F10 CAS2.5
ALL	71275	69059	70679	66454	72286	74259	74213	74543	75031	76299	70341	72377
Integer	87137	91268	91264	95613	96546	102443	102439	102441	99334	113179	105818	117991
Float	108180	112756	112906	118597	119659	126614	127009	126762	123408	140240	131271	145567
Read	265164	264908	264652	240639	263474	275506	278579	285030	259839	279910	265778	279449
Write	97547	99839	100454	62522	71935	76492	76441	76083	90791	74035	90572	72293
ReadWrite	201010	205925	206990	126667	142335	151096	152166	152472	190591	147660	193637	144895
Rectangle	52358	53000	53000	56400	66147	69200	68751	68944	68000	71000	54717	56554
Text	15200	15387	15264	15327	18400	23925	23925	24144	23200	25779	25122	26759
Tellipse	10280	10540	10500	10731	11380	10552	10700	10480	10320	11071	10840	11460
BitBlt	211	211	211	211	428	417	417	417	417	417	208	210
DirectDraw	59	59	59	59	59	37	37	37	37	37	74	59
Read	97709	74418	77050	96240	100688	100787	99224	97709	99224	99224	75294	96331
Write	107337	107337	116894	107337	123522	123522	123373	125798	123522	125798	105567	105567
RandomRead	20225	19273	19047	17905	20039	17756	17426	17426	17519	20732	16420	20221
RandomWrite	28124	27526	28001	27879	28124	28124	28357	28001	27416	27408	27183	21553
*SANDRA*
Dhrystone ALU (MIPS)	8641	8829	9264	9617	9607	10192	10194	10130	9922	10911	10484	11772
Whetstone FPU (MFLOPS)	2433	2549	2549	2671	2695	2860	2861	2860	2771	3160	2955	3296
Whetstone iSSE2 (MFLOPS)	5444	5694	5685	5955	6012	6399	6398	6401	6202	7069	6639	7377
Int Buff iSSE2 (MB/s)	4847	4785	4745	4294	4738	5015	5036	5037	4567	4908	4580	4860
Float Buff iSSE2 (MB/s)	4879	4834	4857	4306	4765	5048	5038	5061	4561	4905	4569	4901
Drive Index (kB/s)	60871	61161	61095	61191	62108	62643	62450	72387	62524	72213	69493	70028
Buffered Read (MB/s)	131	114	96	115	134	132	135	157	134	132	108	109
Sequential Read (MB/s)	87	87	87	88	89	90	90	110	90	109	106	107
Random Read (MB/s)	13	12	12	12	12	12	11	12	12	12	10	10
Buffered Write (MB/s)	44	29	73	55	98	98	97	106	51	72	96	94
Sequential Write (MB/s)	101	100	100	100	102	105	104	104	105	104	101	101
Random Write (MB/s)	19	22	23	23	22	22	22	22	22	22	19	18
Average Access Time (ms)	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	6

P4-3.4GHz Overclock12%(3.809GHz/448MHz)
P4-3.4C Normal
P4-3.2C+ Final Overclock14%(3.654GHz/456MHz)
P4-2.8C+ Final Overclock18%(3.307GHz/472MHz)
P4-2.8C+ 3.117GHz,KHX3500/512x2
P4-2.8C+ 3.197GHz,KHX3500/512x2 Nov01/2003
P4-2.8C+ 3.197GHz,KHX3500/512x2 Nov01/2003
P4-2.8C+ RAID ver3.5 3.09GHz/442MHz
P4-2.8C Normal
P4-2.8C 2.95GHz/422MHz
P4-2.8C 3.09GHz/440MHz Normal Memory Clock
P4-2.8C 3.09GHz/440MHz