But Prime95 (or variants) is not typical in that it stresses CPU and L2
cache performance. It isn't clear to me how the trade-off between the
Celeron 333A with its 128K L2 running at CPU speed compares to the PII-333
with the 512K L2 running at 1/2 the CPU speed when doing LL tests on
If you're really concerned, you could delete the SelfTest*Passed Lines in
local.ini before starting under the other system, to make it rerun the
test under that as well.
And you should probably re-run the self test if you change the
system hardware in any way (especially motherboard,
FYI, Jan 5 saw the launch of the 400MHz Celeron both in the Slot One (SEPP)
and PPGA Pin Grid Array Versions (sorta like socket 7 but not). Although
the celeron has its 'own' chipset - the EX, all the Celerons that we have
built have used a BX motherboard. All decent BX motherboards support the
Just saw a MAC G3 333Mhz with my own two eyes running the RC5 software and
it was testing roughly 10 times the keyspace in the same amount of time
compared to a P333 doing the same thing. I was lobbying heavily for him to
change over to GIMPS. He said he had looked at it and was considering the
I recently asked:
3. How does the efficiency of mprime compare to Prime95? (That is, I'm
getting 0.207 s/iteration under Prime95 right now. How would mprime handle
a comparable number?)
Most of the responses I got indicated little to no change depending on
what's running. Having watched
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Matthew Lewis wrote:
this is a new preprint on the los alamos preprint server that may
interest some of you.
it deals with the sequence of perfect numbers (and hence Mersenne
primes) and whether or not it is finite...
I glanced at Simon Davis' article last night. I can't comment on the
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999 04:16:00 -0500, you wrote:
? Does the c400 use 100 MHz FSB?
Nope, runs at a lowly 66 AFAIK. Overclockable? Maybe - 600MHz .
I'd like to see it, but I have strong doubts about it. Maybe with a
really expensive cooling system, but it would probably be more cost
effective
