Has anyone heard about the K-7 3DNow architecture allowing up to three
times the speed of a Pentium III on equivalent fpu instructions? I
seem to remember reading an article in a January issue of some Linux
based magazine on this topic? Of course, the software to use it isn't
written or modified yet! They were saying something like an apparent
1500MHz from a 500MHz chip! I know K-7 are out there since I saw some
in the Sunday paper.
Dow
Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>
> On balance, I'd go with the slower-clocked, newer CPU. Much would depend on
> how big a jump is represented by K6-2 to K6-III. If it's anything like the
> difference between Pentium and Pentium Pro, I'd go for a marginally slower
> PPro given a choice.
>
> If you are doing any kind of video work, you are going to be loading your
> CPU up, but I think that the ability of the CPU to effectively pipeline,
> predict, cache, etc. will do more for you than clock speed.
>
> - Jeff
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert L. Harris [mailto:">Robert.L.Harris@rnd-consulting.com]
> > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 3:45 PM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: [ale] Processors?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm looking at upgrading my K6-2-350 and have 2 real options. For a
> > general desktop, video capture machine, what woud be better? An
> > AMDK6-III-400 or K6-2-500 ?
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >
> > :wq!
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> >
> > FYI:
> > perl -e 'print
> > $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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