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Subject: Re: celeron A 450 vs pentium ll 450

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 12:02:20 01/18/99

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On January 17, 1999 at 17:40:22, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On January 16, 1999 at 18:31:18, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>
>>I recently built a new computer with 128megs ram and the celeron 300A processor
>>(great buy at £60)which i have successfully overclocked to 450 MHz.It has been
>>running stable at this speed (I ran F5 and CM5000 simultaneously, continuously
>>overnight for last 3 nights to test the stability of the overclocked chip.) I
>>got the following values for fritz mark and junior mark:
>
>Depends upon the program you run. Small programs fit in the 300A already
>big programs don't.
>
>For DIEP a celeron 300A at 450Mhz performs like a PII at 266Mhz.
>An alpha 633Mhz 21164 (using gnu-c compiler) performs like a PII at 360Mhz.
>
>Both i blame slow or small L2 cache size.
>

For Alpha blame GNU C. According to the discussions in comp.arch,

" The general rule of thumb seems to be that integer apps compiled
  for Alpha under gcc run at about 70% of the speed possible with
  DEC's DU compiler."

Eugene

>
>
>
>>FRITZ MARK short   316  KN/sec=392 (16 Mb hash tables)
>>
>>FRITZ MARK long    291  KN/sec=434 (96Mb hash tables)
>>
>>JUNIOR MARK short  307  KN/sec=381 (20 mb hash tables)
>>
>>JUNIOR MARK long   332  Kn/sec 373 (96mb hash tables)  I wonder how these values
>>compare with a genuine pentium ll 450 or 400 MHz or even a top of the line AMD
>>K6? would the extra 512 kb of cache running at 1/2 speed out perform 128 kb
>>running at full speed? I wonder if people with such systems could let me know?
>>even perhaps a comparison could be made between Cel A vs pentium ll vs AMD for
>>different programmes. Interestingly CM5000 calculates 25-28000 posn with every
>>blink.I'll try to boost this chip to 500mhz and if it runs stable I'll post
>>figures at this speed as well.
>>
>>Rajen Gupta



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