From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 2 3:57:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.on.home.com (ha1.rdc2.on.home.com [24.9.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B89D37B77D for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 03:57:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from generic@unitedtamers.com) Received: from unitedtamers.com ([24.68.108.159]) by mail.rdc2.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000702105723.FSWE14115.mail.rdc2.on.home.com@unitedtamers.com>; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 03:57:23 -0700 Message-ID: <395F2033.20AB83A8@unitedtamers.com> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 06:57:55 -0400 From: Generic Player X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh Paetzel , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd k6-2 550 vs p2 300 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I think what you are seeing is the benefits of the p2's onboard cache > running at 1/2 of core speed. There are significant achitechture > differences between the socket 7 and slot one processors that make mghz > comparisons a poor judge of performance when comparing between them. I have > noticed that my P2-350 is quite a bit faster than a comparably set up k6-2 > 450 that I have played around with, so I don't think you are "doing it > wrong" or anything like that. > > Um, huh? Why would having a slower cache be a benefit? Quite a bit faster doing what kind of operations and on what OS if I may ask? I find that freebsd gets alot more out of the k-6 line once you compile a kernel using the tweaks for k-6 chips, and windows seemingly intentionally dogs with an AMD chip. A k-6 II should be roughly the same, or a little faster than the same clock speed p2 in everything except FPU. The only thing a p2 should be noticably faster for is 3d apps. Do you have k-6 write allocate enabled in your BIOS and kernel? Generic Player To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message