On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: > Tristan Day wrote: > > > > I have a genuine Intel P200 MMX, with 32mb RAM
[snip] > > Anyway, try your best to get a PII because you won't be able to upgrade much > > at all, and socket 7 motherboards will become obsolete. This is my problem. > > Like you are going to be able to upgrage a socket 1 motherboard. Dude > do you even know what you are talking about? I think, today you have better chances to upgrade your socket 7 board, because AMD and Cyrix have anounced, that they will do further development for the socket 7 even when they will develop for the slot 1/2 too. > > The MMX instruction set is what speeds up an MMX CPU, and Linux doesn't use > > this, because MMX is really aimed at Win95 people for games and graphics > > (Corel 8 is MMX enhanced) anyway, MMX claims to be 20% faster for any _non_ > > MMX application anyway (ie a P166 MMX is 20% faster than a normal P166 in > > linux or unix or anything.) > > Apparantly the newest binutils does, but you know that because you are a > developer, correct :) It is not aimed at win95 people. MMX is a very > poor attempt by intel. Where do you get the 20% from. Of all the > benchmarks I have seen (many, many) there is around 6% increase, due to > the extra internal cache. You knew that, right :) The German computer magazin "c't" has even stated, that you will not find any application that will have a speed improvement thru MMX (except of the Inter MMX Media BenchMark ;-). But, the MMX Pentiums have greater cache and are slightly redesigned. So - if you like to have "Intel inside" take a MMX Pentium. If you like to have good value for less money, take AMD or Cyrix. > > The AMD K6 is quite good and I think it's much cheaper but its performance > > varies. With some benchmarks and applications it runs faster than intel but > > others it doesn't. I wouldn't but a K6 purely because of higher performance > > because I'm not convinced. > > Faster integer performance, slower floating point performance. > Understand the architectural differences and you will know why. That's right, and if you will do much floating point math, take an other CPU. > > >>In other words, the difference between a P200 and a P200MMX is nada.<< > > > > no no no! It's 20% faster! > > The 20% is pure speculation on your part. Show me some SPEC numbers! Nothing more to say! > > Good luck, try to find a cheap P2 so you'll be able to upgrade, > > Upgrade to what? Look at the intel roadmap for the next 12 months. Not > much to upgrade to. Pentium II is fast right now, but in 12 months > current PII won`t be top. Oh the life cycle of the computer. Gotta > love technology. Looks like its time to replace the old Pentium 262mhz > :) Bye Daniel -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Gross eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hollarstrasse 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-85053 Ingolstadt, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't quit now, we might just as well lock the door and throw away the key. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
