Mersenne: Re: Any one tried Prime95 with a new AMD Athlon ?

1999-09-08 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 03:21:44PM +0100, Michael Oates wrote: >Well I heard that with some programs (and Prime95 may just be that type of >program) may run up to 40% faster than a Pentium III of the same speed. That sounds like an AMD figure... If I remember the discussion right, Prime95 can't (

Mersenne: Any one tried Prime95 with a new AMD Athlon ?

1999-09-08 Thread Michael Oates
As one of the main features of this new processor is the high speed floating point operations, I was wondering if anyone here has tried one, and what sort of speed are you getting with Prime95 ? For my next upgrade I am not sure which path to take, Single Athlon or Dual PIII Thanks, Mike, --