Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:11:32 +0200 From: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Cc: mark@quickweb.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: P6 200 performance Message-ID: <199609261411.QAA14432@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199609261339.JAA11199@crh.cl.msu.edu>; from Charles Henrich on Sep 26, 1996 9:39:04 -0400 References: <52ct7q$1fbr@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <199609261339.JAA11199@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Charles Henrich writes: > In lists.freebsd.hackers you write: > > >On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > >> > >> I want to persuade my professor to spend in a P6/200. > >> What is the performance gain over a P5/166? > >> > >> --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de > >> > > >I don't have numbers around (I'm not a number person..) but I'd say a > >decent P6/200 system is about twice as fast as a P5/166. I base this on > >rough SpecINT95/SpecFP95 results I've seen (go to www.intel.com for exact > >figures) and on personal experience. I have a P6/200, and I'm still > >amazed everyday at how fast the thing is. It's the first PC I've seen that > >I would consider a "workstation". I get sub 4 minute kernel builds, > >blazing X-Performance, etc.. etc.. I've never been so happy with a > >computer! :-) I don't want to beat this topic to death but one last question - otherwise we should go to freebsd-hardware - from what board revision upwards should I buy? Don't want to get an old hat from the shelf with yellow wiring or some such. > > Now how did you get a sub4 minute build? All mine check in at 4.5 :( > > -Crh > -- > > Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu > > http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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