Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 14:24:31 01/19/01
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On January 19, 2001 at 16:11:23, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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 Sorry to hear that, but after you spent some considerable amount of Money just to increase your program by a few rating points. I hope that others don't make the same mistake as you did. Pichard.
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