Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 12:41:13 12/09/99
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On December 09, 1999 at 12:01:16, James T. Walker wrote: >>No. I remember that when it happened, and there was some discussion. Who >>knows, maybe some machines get shipped with different cpu's than labeled. >>Overall, the numbers give a good idea of what to expect for generic integer >>programs. >> >>Will > >Thanks Will, >The reason I asked is I had a K6-2-400 and I changed the motherboard to a >K6-3-450. Not one single program I have ran faster on the K6-2 and Programs >like Hiarcs and CSTal-2 gained more than the Mhz would indicate. >Jim Walker If you have ALI-chipset, it is slower than using VIA-Apollo chipset. Having 512 KB cache on MB is slower than 1MB. Also: do you use 100 Mhz or maybe other bus-speed ? Do you use PS/2 Ram 60ns or do you use DRAM PC100 ? this all influences the speed. also each program has different profit benchmarked on a special hardware. it is right, hiarcs and cstal (as to very big programs) profit much from the k6-3 very big internal cache. small programs (fast-searcher) fit in the internal cache anyway. so a bigger cache = k6-3 will not speed them up. so k6-3 is the way for slow programs to get tuned :-))
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