In August 1995, the calculation of pi up to 4,294,960,000 decimal digits was succeeded by using a supercomputer at the University of Tokyo. The software used was SuperPI.

The software offers up to 32M calculations of PI numbers. In our tests we used 8M calculations:

While the Gigabyte EP45-DS3R has the second best 32M calculation time, the motherboard didn't perform very well with the 1M test and had the lowest score.

- wPrime

wPrime is a benchmarking application designed to use a highly multithreaded approach to calculating the square-roots of large amounts of numbers (up to 32 billion at this stage!)

wPrime uses all four cores of quad processors, therefore it can finish the task much faster than a C2D.

The Gigabyte EP45-DS3R system was slightly slower then the rest systems with 17.124 seconds..