Subject: Re: cpu cycle server machine
To: None <laine@morningstar.SPAM-FREE-OR-DIE.com>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/11/1998 06:59:22
Laine Stump wrote:
> 
> mjacob@feral.com (Matthew Jacob) writes:
> 
> >As best as I can tell, you have to get a 400Mhz PII to match
> >a 200Mhz PentPro.
> 
> Huh? Is this a typo? Certainly the performance of a single PII
> 333Mhz was considerably better than a PPro 200Mhz in the tests I
> ran here. On the order of about 40% faster, as a matter of fact
> (this was for running gmake, gcc, and binutils to do a cross compile
> of about 2000 source files).
> 
> Note that both motherboards were Intel. The PPro was a PR440FX, the
> PII was a DK440LX. (In both cases the second CPU was unused :-( )

Alright, I'll sheepishly admitI took this sentence from someone
else reporting it to me. I've a PII300Mhz on order and I'll
compare it to the two 2x200Mhz PPro machines I have (single
cpu only) when I get it.