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 would be possible to build a headless P4 box very cheaply, especially if you booted off of a network and didn't have to install a hard disk... On another tangent, I've been meaning to post the shell script that generates the signature at the bottom... It is not a pretty script, but it works... I'm kinda new at this: #!/bin/sh /opt/sfw/bin/wget -O - -q http://mersenne.org/ips/top101to500.shtml | grep Team_Prime_Rib | awk '{printf ("Xyzzy [%3d/%2.3f/", $1, $4)}' /opt/sfw/bin/wget -O - -q http://mersenne.org/primenet/ftop101to500.txt | grep Team_Prime_Rib | awk '{printf ("%3d/%1.3f] http://www.teamprimerib.com/\n";, $1, $5)}' Actually, this is version 2 of the script while the one at the bottom is version 3... Version 3 is still so ugly I'd be embarassed to post it... The only difference is it gives the P90 hours per day in addition to the other data... The format is: UserID [LL Rank/LL P90 Years/Factoring Rank/Factoring P90 Years] URL Obviously, you need to modify the script to personalise it... You need to put your UserID in the grep portion, you need to match the filenames that wget pulls to the range you are in and you might need to modify the formatted output depending on what numbers are returned... Also, the path to wget might need to be altered (assuming it is installed!)... There is probably an easier way, but I haven't found it yet... I'd be curious to see if it runs under Windows... I know wget is available for windows and I bet awk is too... Xyzzy [156/76.273/247/3.577/507.98] http://www.teamprimerib.com/ 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 ? > > Do we have to consider now Intel/P4 as the best platform (at least for > prime95)? > > Regards, Jean-Yves > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm > Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
