On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 14:58:55 -0700, P Collins wrote:

> Hi Kony.
>
> I'm using some Artic Silver putty on the CPU. I think my room temp can
> be part of the problem, because in summer it gets up to mid-20's
> Celcius. The only fans in my case are:
>
> 1 fan on the Abit NF7 motherboard.
> 1 fan on the CPU itself.
> 1 fan on my Radeon 9800 Pro.
> 1 fan sucking air from inside into the Antec Truepower 350W PSU.
> 1 fan blowing air out from the Antec PSU.
>
> So really, the only fans blowing out from my case is my PSU fan. All
> the other fans blow around inside.
>
> As for why I think my system is underperforming:
> Test system: AMD XP 2500+ Barton 333MHz FSB, 2x512MB DDR333 RAM, Abit
> NF7 motherboard.
>
> My overall CPU Bench 2003 score: 5675
> Score of a Intel P4A 2.4GHz CPU: 5758 (note my CPU is supposed to be
> equivalent to 2500+)
> Score of an AMD Athlon XP 2400+: 5861 (my CPU should beat this!)
> Score of an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (266MHz FSB): 6146
>
> The results are the stored results in CPU Bench 2003, I don't know if
> the processors there are overclocked. Doubtful, or the XP 2600+ would
> beat my 2500+ by a very long shot.
>
> Thanks.

The difference between the 2400+ and your 2500+ is 3%, that's
insignificant. Lot's of things can account for that, it's so small that it
could be nothing more then a measurement artifact. Any difference in your
OS patch level, what anti-virus program you are running, any other daemons
that are running. I wouldn't about tiny differences like that. If your
machine was running at half speed then I'd look for a problem (which is
much more likely to be caused by software then hardware), but not when you
are running 5% less then you expect.

As for you cooling problem, put in a case fan, if that doesn't do it get a
better CPU cooler.