Re: Mersenne: AthlonXP

2001-10-14 Thread Michael Vang
That the P4 is the best platform is a given... I'm curious how the 850 chipset version (RDRAM) compares to the 845 chipset version (SDRAM)... I noticed that Newegg has retail boxed P4s (1.3GHz) with 2x64MB RDRAM for $120... I don't know if it is PC600 or PC800 RDRAM, though... It looks like it w

Mersenne: Minor milestone

2001-10-14 Thread bjb
Hi, In case any one hasn't noticed: Everyone in the PrimeNet Top 100 Producers list has now contributed more than 100 P90 CPU years. Regards Brian Beesley _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm

Re: Mersenne: AthlonXP

2001-10-14 Thread bjb
On 14 Oct 2001, at 7:30, Jean-Yves Canart wrote: > According to latest benchmarks (http://www.mersenne.org/bench.htm), > AthlonXP seems to be slower than the Thunderbird. Does anybody have a > technical explanation ? The Athlon XP lies about its speed. Remember the old Cyrix trick? Well AMD ha

Re: Mersenne: AthlonXP

2001-10-14 Thread Francois Gouget
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 14 Oct 2001, at 7:30, Jean-Yves Canart wrote: > > > According to latest benchmarks (http://www.mersenne.org/bench.htm), > > AthlonXP seems to be slower than the Thunderbird. Does anybody have a > > technical explanation ? > > The Athlon XP lies

Re: Mersenne: AthlonXP

2001-10-14 Thread George Woltman
Hi, At 11:41 AM 10/14/2001 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > According to latest benchmarks (http://www.mersenne.org/bench.htm), > > AthlonXP seems to be slower than the Thunderbird. Does anybody have a > > technical explanation ? The technical explanation is that I only have one XP benchmark

Re: Mersenne: AthlonXP

2001-10-14 Thread Matthew Ashton
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 07:30:24AM +0200, Jean-Yves Canart wrote: > Hello All > > According to latest benchmarks (http://www.mersenne.org/bench.htm), > AthlonXP seems to be slower than the Thunderbird. Does anybody have a > technical explanation ? > Hi, The benchmark run was mine, and I was a l

Re: Mersenne: AthlonXP

2001-10-14 Thread George Woltman
Hi, At 07:16 PM 10/14/2001 -0700, Matthew Ashton wrote: >The benchmark run was mine, and I was a little disapointed as well. >The system is a dual Athlon 1700XP (1460Mhz). >For the curious, the system is based on the Tyan Tiger MP, and was >running Linux 2.4.10-ac12 with 1GB of 266Mhz DDR Ram. I