Whoops, somehow Pegasus decided to send my previous message as rich text, even though I specifically unitcked the "Rich text" box. The message should have been readable, but with extra html-like tags. But I will resend it for the benefit of Arachne Insight users.... (copied and pasted through notepad to ensure all traces of richness is removed) ---begin--- On 3 Jan 2001, at 13:11, Bernie wrote: > 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? 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. > 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). If you check this link: http://www.emulators.com/pentium4.htm 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. > BTW: The instruction set for a Pentium is almost identical to a 486. 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. ---end--- -- Ben Hood http://i.am/hoody To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
