The message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from George Woltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> contains these words:
> >I've just got a shiny new Athlon 64 at work (running XP), replacing an > >extremely tired P3. > > > >It now seems to be tearing through the factorisations I'd limited the P3 > >to, in 3 or 4 days instead of c 6 weeks. > > > >I've upgraded to v24.14 for yet more speed - am I right in thinking this > >is the best version of Prime95 for this machine/OS ? > For that CPU you are better running 64-bit Windows if you are trial > factoring > above 2^64. However, that computer is more than powerful enough for > you to switch to LL testing. Indeed - in fact I appear to have bagged all the free exponents for factoring (!) so will move to LL when those have finished. I did try downloading Prime64 but (of course) XP wouldn't let me run it, and as it's a work machine, I don't get a choice about the OS. Jason _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
