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Subject: new stepping CPUs from intel slower?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 13:11:23 01/19/01


Hello,

I did a small comparision between 1 Ghz FCPGA cpu mounted on a
slot1 motherboard  Asus P3v4x  with a converter stepping cCo.
It has 133Mhz 2-2-2 SDRAM

I compared with my OWN slot1 dual 800PIII-cumine bx supermicro motherboard.
In my motherboard there is only 100Mhz 3-3-3 SDRAM.

At those huge speeds of processors SDRAM makes a big difference!

HOWEVER, when i ran the same version with the same amount of hashtables
(40mb for this test) and also on the 1 Ghz machine,
then the difference was ONLY 9% speed.

So the 1Ghz machine WAS ONLY 9% faster as a single 800Mhz of mine.

Now we can complain about the OS and about a few programs that
ran on both machines, but those hardly eated system time.

Speed difference on paper should be 30% of so, and there is a HUGE
gap between 9% and 30%.

What did INTEL do to the FCPGA processors, and do others have the
same results there as i have here?

Unless this speed difference was because of some mistake like
a bug in the comparision at any point, i am VERY dissappointed!!

Greetings,
Vincent







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