Author: Mark Young
Date: 08:29:11 05/02/98
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On May 02, 1998 at 10:35:44, Joe McCarron wrote: >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. ------------------------------------- Try hitting CTRL+ALT+DEL and close down all programs except explorer and systray. Then run Fritz 5. This should give you some extra speed.
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