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Okay so you got a uber system, and your benchmarking it. So you keep overclocking it and getting bigger and better scores eh. Well you hear through a few links and posts that you can do better if you do thisor that, so you try it out, bam you shave a few more seconds off, or add a few points. A few months worth of tweaking and tada your running a system that bought stock (if possible) would cost you grands.

So you want the best scores, try this tip. Think of this thread as a guide to benching the best way. Now IÂ’m no expert and any Linux geek can correct me if they feel the need, please do IÂ’m horridly new to this. ThereÂ’s many flavors of linux, many of them live run able, personally IÂ’ve run Linspre, DSL (Damn small linux), Knoppix (Morphix, whoppix) Redhat, and Ubuntu.

Any of these will work, if you ever knew heard or thought of linux you understand that its command line driven (to an extent, donÂ’t be like I hated DOS) There a command interface in every linux distribution, all you need to do is open it, or open the box that enables it (kind of like how windows runs Command.com, or CMD.exe.) Now after you boot up a live CD, or install linux on a old HDD or any HDD, installing linux depends on your flavor, I use ubuntu do to its user friendly environment and ease of use. Now after you install and boot, or run the live CD which ever you prefer. Follow these steps:

First you need the benchmark app to run. [*For verification of these runs, the superPI copy for linux hasnÂ’t been modded by XS or anyone else yet to include a validation code, It is on the way from all the coders out there that helped make this linux version available, when it is released IÂ’ll update it to this thread.*] Until then, we use the same old stock superPI that we used to, before persons modded it for closer times and validations. The system isnÂ’t as easy as the good ole, double-click, and drop down to calculate pi, then 1MB, its shorter but more complicated.

So you downloaded this file ftp://pi.super-computing.org/Linux/super_pi.tar.gz
You most likely want to wait till you have linux running to download it, only because then its in you RAM only and will be deleted as soon as you restart.

Now what to do with it, it should have downloaded to your desktop if you are running firefox, unless you already have specified a DL folder. If you arenÂ’t using firefox for linux, when you DL the file put it somewhere like your home folder or your desktop, ease of use remember. What you need to do is extract the files inside the tar file you DLed. Ubuntu has an extractor in itself that will utar these files, I donÂ’t necessarily have knowledge of other distros, but I bet they can untar easily by command prompt if not having a app that can do it for you.

So you have three files to untar, you really want to just put them on your desktop, easiest route, for tidiness, to your not so temporary desktop, for those who installed linux of sort onto there system, I threw the files into a folder called “pi” ease of use again.

So If you’ve made it this far, you either running to pc’s relatively close to each other and reading this guide as you run it, or your reading this from linux on the PC you want to bench. Now from ubuntu’s perspective, open your terminal from the top it goes ApplicationsàAccessoriesàTerminal

Its starting you in root, or what it probably says is desktop, or ubuntu@ubuntu $desktop something like that, nothing really important. Okay now follow this case sensitiveness. (except for the enters, that means hit the enter key)

For those who extracted the files to your desktop:
This is 1MB
This is 32MB


For those who put them in a folder ie. Pi:
1MB
32MB

It will run from the time you hit enter

Now if stable enough, you pi time should be up around the amount of time your normal Winblows times are, or at least close but a little quick maybe even 4s.

Now for the screeny type this
or

The second version will let you browse the cpuinfo, and you have to hit q to exit the info.
So you successfully ran the superPI in linux, feel “geeky” at all eh.

If you have any issues with this guide, or cant figure it out, post your problem and IÂ’ll address it as soon as I can, I am going to school, and working so im normally only around 11-12pm EST till around 4am EST Depending on how late I stay up.

I tried to go with ubuntu as much as possible only because you can download it in about 15 mins from a DSL/Cable internet, directly from there site (you may need to browse mirrors for fastest speeds mine ran 800+kbs all the way threw)

Here is the link to there DL section http://www.ubuntu.com/download

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