On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 17:05 -0500, Jeff Simpson wrote: > Hey, I didn't say I was an intel user, just that the general consensus > is that for whatever reason the pentiums are better at it.
Well, for certain tasks, Megahertz really do matter. Encoding with lame, for example. I get the impression, though, that they don't here. > I'm a happy Athlon 1600 user (not for HD of course) > > On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:52:56 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 16:34 -0500, Jeff Simpson wrote: > > > It's not so much that athlons don't have the power, just that for some > > > reason pentiums are better at the particular decoding process. > > > > > > might have something to do with the fact that all of myth is optimised > > > for pentiumpro mmx....hmmmm > > > > And that's the basis of your "Intel is better" idea, even though > > Athlons have had MMX capability since Day 1? > > > > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name" > > model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ > > > > $ for f in `cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags`; do echo $f; done > > flags > > : > > fpu > > vme > > [snip] > > pat > > pse36 > > mmx <<<<<<<<<<<< > > fxsr > > sse > > pni > > syscall > > mmxext <<<<<<<<<<<< > > 3dnowext > > 3dnow -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "The UN couldn't break up a cookie fight in a Brownie meeting." Larry Miller
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