From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 19 23:12:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 017E137B42C for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:12:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA09416; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:12:28 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:12:27 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: "Kulraj Gurm (bosa.ca account)" Cc: Jeremiah Gowdy , Charles Burns , Subject: Re: the AMD factor in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <005e01c0c952$22d8aae0$64c8a8c0@asknet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Kulraj Gurm (bosa.ca account) wrote: > >> Thanks, I'm familiar with all of those. I guess I just wanted to > >> know how they do under FreeBSD since all the sites really benchmark it > >> under Windows. > > >It's the same. If the code is written and compiled properly, the > difference > >should be seen in all OSes. > > Slightly of topic, couldn't resist : > Toms Hardware conducts a linux kernel compile in one of their benchmarks. If > we have any Intel lovers out there please put you hands over your ears for > the rest of this...... > Their kernel compile test they find always fails on overclocked CPU's that > is why the concluded that the Intel Pentium III 1133MHz CPU was essentially > an overclocked 850MHz CPU. This if I remember right has been recalled and > never re-released. > I could find the link to Tom's archive covering this, it really is quite > amusing. Hmmm, has Intel been trying to release the same old CPU's but overclocked them and sell them as faster CPUs? Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message