Great results with bitcoin-0.7.1-353-g3afefd8-win32
- Windows 7
- HP 8440 laptop with 4 cores
- 8GB RAM
- FiOS connection
- bitcoin-qt.exe -datadir=C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\LargeDB\Bitcoin071 -logtimestamps -dbcache=250
bootstrap.dat was in place. I didn't see much multithreading, but the blockchain bootstrap and update ran fast. debug.log excerpts:
2013-01-23 03:11:54 SetBestChain: new best=00000000839a8e6886ab5951d76f411475428afc90947ee320161bbf18eb6048 height=1 work=8590065666 tx=2 date=2009-01-09 02:54:252013-01-23 03:44:50
Loaded 193000 blocks from external file in 1976602ms
2013-01-23 03:59:43 SetBestChain: new best=00000000000006a1e50bedf15148d15aafa469aa02c0e9ad1d8fa3a479bb770e height=193001 work=420251477813705134572 tx=5770265 date=2012-08-09 06:17:15
2013-01-23 04:05:29 SetBestChain: new best=000000000000046242d4984ecf2217e9afa113f2835bffbff118f2df4d80b216 height=194000 work=429298255956894417423 tx=5993959 date=2012-08-15 10:02:59
2013-01-23 04:44:27 SetBestChain: new best=000000000000034a7dedef4a161fa058a2d67a173a90155f3a2fe6fc132e0ebf height=200000 work=493482865315456673820 tx=7316696 date=2012-09-22 10:45:59
2013-01-23 05:48:37 SetBestChain: new best=000000000000048b95347e83192f69cf0366076336c639f9b7228e9ba171342e height=210000 work=628963747775700992096 tx=9344662 date=2012-11-28 15:24:38
2013-01-23 06:52:09 SetBestChain: new best=000000000000036d1e5c410c393017277f8ccb59cb30a9143e818e788ecd2515 height=217000 work=726735151411243146775 tx=11340810 date=2013-01-18 09:24:24
2013-01-23 06:58:57 SetBestChain: new best=0000000000000369ae94ccf9ac51e1b89251ba18904c1d0685f31c100d0eab59 height=217650 work=735807150813835318925 tx=11562582 date=2013-01-23 04:29:53
2013-01-23 07:00:31 SetBestChain: new best=000000000000049506cb15e13a38c2f9116d530603698d0bf3dabcb0a3bf091a height=217665 work=736016504646202830590 tx=11569307 date=2013-01-23 06:59:32
Worked fine with a small transaction in and back out.