<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>On 3 Jan 2001, at 13:11, Bernie wrote:
<color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>> Int Eger wrote:
> >grrr... bad luck for me then, but at least now i know what's causing it..
> >hmmpf.. and i already had to replace its ventilator with a better one...
> >finding out after a couple of 'sudden reboots' that the processor was really
> >really hot :(
>
> A ventilator? You aren't using a fan? Or is it the same thing?
</color>I am assuming it is. A ventilator probably is better; gets rid of the
hot air rather than just blowing it around.
A quick note about cpu fans, my work (Domino's Pizza) has a PIII
667, and the fan fell off! It quickly froze. No-one knew what was
wrong with it, as it froze again during window's startup. So I had a
go, and it froze in setup, so I knew windows wasn't to blame this
time. ;-)
The rest of the store is run off a single Classic Pentium (AFAICT)
running some sort of unix with lots of dumb terminals. Never turned
off, never any problems.
<color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>> And speaking of AMD a K6-3 is better on floating
point than a K6-2 (Pentium
> II class perhaps?) and a Duron or a Thunderbird is even better (the later
> outperfroms the Pentium IV in some tests).
</color>If you check this link:
<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>http://www.emulators.com/pentium4.htm
</color>it says the P4 really sucks. This is a very good document, and
describes how Intel et al improved their CPUs. I would
reccommend reading it! (Is quite large, 109k for the html and 10k
for images.)
And a P4 1500 is about the same as a Thunderbird 900, on
benchmarking (which don't mean much). To get the most speed
out of a P4, one must recompile all programs to take advantage of
the new SSE instructions and to correctly order the instructions.
This is a similar problem with the PPro; the 16 bit code in W9x
stuffs it up, but for true 32 bit OSs (eg linux), it really performs well.
<color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>> BTW: The instruction set for a Pentium is almost
identical to a 486.
</color>An original Pentium is basically two 486's glued together. After
that, they started adding more instructions (eg MMX), more L1
cache, more pipelines, etc.
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