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Subject: Re: Some benchmarks: K6-3/450, P3/600, Athlon/600

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 06:22:04 10/11/99

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On October 09, 1999 at 18:21:15, Peter Kappler wrote:

>Hi Wayne,
>
>I was just thinking the same thing this morning, so I made a trip to the local
>computer store to do a little benchmarking.  Note that I didn't use a well-known
>program like Crafty - my goal was to see how my program (Grok) would do.
>
>I didn't want to hang out there for a long time, so I just ran a couple of
>fixed-depth searches on two different machines.  (The K6-3/450 is my home
>machine).  The times (in seconds) are listed below:
>
>
>             K6-3/450  P3/600  Athlon/600
>position #1     72.3    62.6     46.9
>position #2     64.0    51.1     40.3
>
>
>As you can see, the Athlon easily beat the P3 running at the same clock speed!
>Nice job, AMD!
>
>--Peter

Anyone having times from K6-2-450? Seems to be good alternative since the Athlon
boards are at about $200 plus $300 for the slowest Athlon cpu while a
K6-2-450+board is $174...



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