On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Bob Margulies wrote:
> I have just discovered that my wife is about to be presented with a new
> computer which contains a K6-2/333 processor, 64K L1, 512K L2, 64MB of
> SRAM. I would be willing to invest a few $$$ of my own in an upgrade to
> a Pentium if it made a substantial difference in running Prime95. My
> understanding is that the program has been optimized for the Pentium.
> The question is - how well does it run on the K6?
>
> Can someone please give me a comparison of the merits of the K6 vs. the
> Pentium? Also, please withhold comments on the domestic implications of
> the problem.
http://www2.tripnet.se/~nlg/mersenne/benchmk.htm
Though it only has results for the K6, not for the K6-2, but the main
speed advance for K6-2 was in the additional 3DNow! instructions, which
aren't used for prime95, so it should still hold.
--
Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S
URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/
Get the rest there.
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