Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:06:32 -0700 From: soralx@cydem.org To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: lists@hausro.de Subject: Re: Quiet computer Message-ID: <200609182106.33167.soralx@cydem.org> In-Reply-To: <06c301c6d70d$bca78640$857ba8c0@Rage> References: <3692C07B-CCCC-4756-9B33-6DA724481FF2@ketralnis.com> <200609122249.18405.soralx@cydem.org> <06c301c6d70d$bca78640$857ba8c0@Rage>
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> But to support this VIA CPUs, I must say that for their apparent lack of > performance in benchmarks, they run surprinsingly well in real life. If > FreeBSD or Windows, this machine of rather low manufacturing quality (Yakumo > is not the best of the best) is considerably faster than my Fujitsu Siemens > laptop with PIII 850MHz which has the same HDD and amount of RAM etc... Surprising indeed. See, e.g. http://www.phystech.com/download/ubench/ref56.html: From: Troy Arie Cobb <tcobb@circle.net7gt; Subject: Ubench results Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 10:22:19 -0500 Dual PIII 850MHz, 1GB PC-100 RAM FreeBSD 4.5-RC FreeBSD 4.5-RC #1: Sun Jan 27 0 i386 Ubench CPU: 96156 Ubench MEM: 58845 -------------------- Ubench AVG: 77500 This means that the score for single PIII-850 would be about 45k. PIII-933 with 133MHz FSB and Tualatin core (which is the best Intel designed so far, IMHO) should be even better. So, David, you might want to checkout the Low Voltage P-III's (12.2W) too: http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/pentiumiii/pentiumiii.htm Still, how fast the system 'feels' is probably more important than plain scores, so if someone who runs 8 busy KDE workspaces says it's OK, then it probably is [I think there's no need to tell you just how voracious KDE is as for resources] :) > [...] > Olivier Gautherot [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2
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