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Subject: Re: F5 Fritzmark

Author: Joe McCarron

Date: 07:35:44 05/02/98

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On May 01, 1998 at 17:08:34, Mark Young wrote:

>On May 01, 1998 at 16:33:31, Tom Powers wrote:
>
>>On May 01, 1998 at 14:51:52, Moritz Berger wrote:
>>
>>>On May 01, 1998 at 14:27:06, Tom Powers wrote:
>>>
>>>>I recently upgraded my Cyrix 166+ 512K cache 64Meg 60ns dram computer to
>>>>a 233AMD K6, 1Meg L2 Cache, 128 Meg 10ns SDRAM configuration. My
>>>>Fritzmark went from 86 to 186 (105M hash vs old 52M hash).  Can this be
>>>>right? I expected about 140 or so.
>>>>
>>>>I recommend the Mtech R581A motherboard. Really nice.
>>>>
>>>>tom
>>>
>>>You have got to differenciate between the "short" and "long" Fritzmarks
>>>... I get 202 long/FM with my P233MMX (98304KB hash).
>>
>>
>>The fritzmark was the "long" variety.  Is your processor Intel?
>-----------------------------------------------
>
>Your Fritzmark sound about right. Fritz 5 seems to run much better on
>intel chips. So the P233mmx with a 202 long/FM sounds like an Intel
>chip. My PII 300 and P II 333 with 40meg hash hit about 230+ long/FM.
>For some reason the P II 300 tends to get a few more points then the P
>II 333. The Klamath chips (PII233 to PII300) may just be a bit better at
>running 16 bit code.

I have a K6 233 1meg burstcache hot 603 with 32 meg sdram.  The hash
tables were whatever the computer came up with as a default.  I think my
fritzmark was about a 142.  (If I find this was inaccurate Ill try to
repost.)(also I had some things runnign in the background like a virus
checker)

On my p2 266 I got about a 184 top end.  I have 64 meg on that computer
and I was just shifting the amount of hash tables to see what would give
me the highest fritzmark.  I think I got the highest around 30 meg hash
tables.  (yes again I had other programs in the background like norton
virus checker)

I recall readign that the pentium 2s might be better than k6s at running
windows programs because the bus speed between the L2 cache is half the
speed of the processor - and much faster in that respect than the
k6design.  Whereas the k6 has a bigger L1 cache which is why it should
be better at dos programs like Rebel.  This is the thinking I remeber
readign but I have no independant knowledge of its validity.

As to why the K6's don't fair as well as the regular pentiums I don't
know.  I bet if it was a 32 bit the k6s would beat the regular pentiums.
 They probably beat the pentium pros at the same clock speed.





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