John VanSickle wrote:
> 
> Kari Kivisalo wrote:
> >
> > I checked http://www.haveland.com/povbench/ to find how fast the
> > current processors are. According to that table Athlon/Duron 800-1000
> > is 8x faster than AMD K6 3 400Mhz which I have. Time to go shopping :)
> 
> 
> It appears to depend on the OS you're running.  The Linux boxes seem
> a tad faster than the Windows machines.

I cancelled my original post because I realised my memory settings
in BIOS were left at default after some ISDN adapter experiments.
I have Asus tx97-xe mobo with 192M sdram. Bus is at 66MHz.
I tweaked BIOS and got 2x speed increase :)


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Kari Kivisalo                                  http://www.kivisalo.net

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