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Subject: Re: Cool AMD 450 Mhz....

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 11:07:11 07/11/98

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On July 11, 1998 at 13:38:14, Mark Young wrote:

>On July 11, 1998 at 07:56:26, Kim Hvarre wrote:
>
>>On July 10, 1998 at 17:06:06, Mark Young wrote:
>>
>>>On July 10, 1998 at 05:46:37, Kim Hvarre wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 10, 1998 at 00:35:52, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>snipsnip
>>>>
>>snip and...
>>
>>>>Qouting from Ed's benchmarkpage:
>>>>
>>>>Pentium PRO 200      1:02    7:38    1:57     0:19    4:56   0:26
>>>>Cyrix 200            1:22   10:12    2:20     0:17    3:45   0:22
>>>>AMD K6 200           0:47    5:50    1:30     0:15    3:45   0:20
>>>>
>>>I would not trust the times given on Ed's web page. I have access to many of the
>>>machines on Eds web page. I have benched many of them with rebel and some don't
>>>even come close to what Ed has posted on his site. This makes me think some have
>>>posted exaggerated times or did not run the test right. If you take this into
>>>account and just look at what chip is better at running rebel it is pretty much
>>>correct. But don't expect to get some of the times he has posted if you buy that
>>>computer with that chip in it.
>>
>>snip
>>
>>Well, You might be right, but the 2 processors I've tried match pr. sec.!
>>
>>kim
>
>Some are all right some are not. What 2 did you match?

Some people tweak the bios settings on their motherboards (ram timings
as one example) which will make some machines different despite identical
processors. Typically a computer will have the original bios settings set
conservatively.

I did find the original K6-233 timings on Ed's page were way off. I emailed him
what my machine found and he made the correction on his page. The original time
for the K6-233 was the time when the problem was solved (not the time Ed
wanted - the time when the ply was completed) so in this example it was
an error in following the directions for the test.



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