opps I meant to say this: XP was also miles ahead of the P4, ^on office/business apps^ but I don't mention that because thats a knownm shortcomming of the P4.
rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Monday, 17 December 2001 2:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Shopping for Motherboard for Linux yeah, I know, but I have had that install of linux on 5 different mainboard with 5 different CPU's and its proven a good indicator, not anywhere near as useful as a real "benchmark" but a good indication of the speed on that system.. I wasn't giving it as any indication of its speed compared to P4's, that reference I made to the P4 was from a PC mag I have here that compared it to a P4 2 gig and the XP1800+ pretty much sweeped the feild. (though the P4 wasn't using RDRAM, think it was using DDR just like the XP1800+) anyway, even Quake and Expendable... the results went something like this: Resolution 640x480/32 1024x768/32 // 1600x1200 Athlon XP1800+ QIII 174.90fps 168 115.10 P42gig QIII 153.1fps 148.90 108.60 The expenndable results were just as good. but I am not that keen on typing it all out.. XP was also miles ahead of the P4, but I don't mention that because thats a known shortcomming of the P4. The tests where done on production systems using the same vid card in both (G3 Titanium 500) with the latest detonator and chipset drivers its just a telling report I think,, especially since the XP is less than half the price of the P4. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Terry Mathews Sent: Monday, 17 December 2001 1:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Shopping for Motherboard for Linux Repeat after me: BogoMIPS are bogus... BogoMIPS are bogus... BogoMIPS are bogus. They are only useful in the context of one system. If your system is running at X BogoMIPS, and then you tweak a setting and now it's at X+Y BogoMIPS, your system is running faster. You can't use BogoMIPS as a benchmark to tell if a P4 is faster than an XP or not. For that, you need a program that measures real MIPS... Or some other subjective comparision like kernel compile times. Terry > I vaguely remember having higher bogomips before so I might have dropped the > bios to "bios defaults" > still, 3060.53 bogomips is nothing to scoff at, particularly since it > doesn't take any of the XP's optimisations into account, like SSE and 3dmax
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