Originally posted by Toadster:
Originally posted by Big Daddy Kane:
First of all, it is not fair to compare my two systems. The AMD was a mid-speed computer in 2000/2001, however, you can compare them to similar systems.

First up, my laptop with the following important specs:
  • 1.6GHz Pentium M w/2MB L2 cache overclocked to 2.13GHz via pinmod
  • 2,048MB (2GB) of PC4200 DDR2 RAM
  • 533MHz FSB


  • Now my desktop:
  • 1.4GHz Athlon Thunderbird (last of the non PR rated CPUs)
  • 1,024MB (1GB) of PC3200 DDR RAM
  • 266MHz FSB


  • You can compare the results of each to the following setups:

    Laptop:
  • Supposedly a ~2.0GHz Pentium M is faster than a 3.2GHz Pentium 4 with HT disabled. So you could compare this to an Athlon that is PR rated at "3200" I suppose.

    Desktop:
  • The first PR rated Athlons was the Athlon XP "1800" 1.5GHz. So I suppose you could compare my 1.4GHz T-bird to a 1.7GHz Pentium 4.

    Oh, and I forgot to mention, supposedly Pentium Ms are horrible with floating point calculations, so I had better see some Athlon "3200"s beating my laptop!



    • no need to run the 32M test (unless you want to wait for it) - just try the 1M test, that's usually the standard size

    you can also try PiFAST - it's much MUCH faster - i can calculate 1,000,000 iterations in 1.43seconds



    Ach so!

    With that information, I ran another test on each machine at 1M and changed the pictures.

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