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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
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