At 05:26 PM 12/6/2001 -0500, Paradox wrote:

>1) I have a P4 1.9 GHz with PC800 ram that is testing an exponent in the
>333XXXXX range,
>and it is getting approximately 0.180 sec/iteration when completely idle
>on Windows 2000.
>According to the benchmark on mersenne.org, it should be around 0.143.
>Am I losing cycles
>somewhere? Is it possible the mainboard (Intel 850GBC) is lying to me
>about the clockspeed?


Do you have an actual video card or is the video on the motherboard 
(sharing memory)?  That can be a factor.



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|     Jud McCranie                                        |
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| Programming Achieved with Structure, Clarity, And Logic |
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