Author: Mark Young
Date: 13:31:41 07/11/98
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On July 11, 1998 at 14:07:11, Howard Exner wrote: >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. That makes sense. I know you can tweak the bios settings but not by 20 to 30 percent in speed. I think this might be the cause of some other timing errors he has posted. If I run the test till rebel finds just the solution, the times matches up much better on the computers I have at home.
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