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To: pgerassi who wrote (106919)	8/3/2000 4:48:44 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Pete, small sample, what 5 or 6 benchmarkers heard from? I hope Intel has many times that number of setups for DVT on a new product. Why didn't they see it? It is perplexing, I have to admit. You do know that there are people that make a living out of trying to make successful companies, like Intel, Cisco and Microsoft look bad. With the underdogs, like AMD, it's pretty much the opposite. OTOH, do you remember the benchmark for the K7, last May or so, with the hilarious photos of the voltage regulators, and the K7 ran about as fast as a Celeron Covington, or something? That was completely bogus as it turned out. We'll see. Tony

To: pgerassi who wrote (106919)	8/3/2000 7:03:09 PM
From: semiconeng	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 186894

When using this specially prepared motherboard, a simple benchmark, Prime95, crashes the system in less than 1 minute of operation. So, your contention that Prime95 was "a simple benchmark", got me to wondering.... I mean, I've never heard of this "simple benchmark" before Kyle mentioned it. Have you? Well thanks to goggle.com, it was a simple matter to discover that Prime95 is not a "benchmark" at all, it's a prime number search software, and is anything but simple: mersenne.org mersenne.org mersenne.org Also, I did find something very interesting. I wonder if Kyle has the latest Version 20.6? If not........ mersenne.org "New features in Version 20.6 of prime95.exe ------------------------------------------- 1) A crash bug was fixed. If you did P-1 factoring followed by trial factoring, then if you found a factor unallocated memory was accessed usually resulting in a crash. New features in Version 20.2 of prime95.exe ------------------------------------------- 1) If P-1 stage 1 completed and there was not enough memory to start stage 2 immediately, then an incorrect save file was generated. This bug was introduced in version 20.1. Upon restart of the P-1 factoring job a crash or other unpredictable behavior was possible. This bug was fixed and this version has special code to properly read these incorrect save files. Gee, I guess this piece of "Freeware", may not be so "simple" after all. Amazing what you find when you look. Isn't it? ;-) SemiconEng