Gigabyte X79S-UP5-WIFI (with Intel Xeon E5 2660) Review

wPrime is a leading multithreaded benchmark for x86 processors that tests your processor performance by calculating square roots with a recursive call of Newton's method for estimating functions, with f(x)=x2-k, where k is the number we're sqrting, until Sgn(f(x)/f'(x)) does not equal that of the previous iteration, starting with an estimation of k/2. It then uses an iterative calling of the estimation method a set amount of times to increase the accuracy of the results. It then confirms that n(k)2=k to ensure the calculation was correct. It repeats this for all numbers from 1 to the requested maximum.

We set wPrime to 16 cores.

The Xeon E5 2660 turns in a strong result of around 160 seconds. The 3960X Extreme Edition when overclocked to 4.8ghz turns in a faster result of 120 seconds.

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