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To: Yousef who wrote (25694)	11/8/1997 5:00:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579121

Yousef - Re: Fuchi and Intel Processsor Performance Check out this sight, courtesy of the Fuchimeister! anand.iserver.net This overclocker dude successfully ran the Intel Pentium MMX (0.35 micron process) up to 290 MHz to compare it to a 300 Mhz Pentium II. Except for one case (he blamed it on cooling - the dude didn't properly cool the Pentium MMM), the old Pentium ran fine at 290 MHz. Wait until this dude gets hold of a Tillamook and a Deschutes! Windows 95 Performance Pentium MMX vs Pentium II Business Winstone 97 Test Intel Pentium MMX Intel Pentium II Business Winstone 97 57.6 66.5 High End Winstone 97 Failed 34.4 CPUMark16 569 612 CPUMark 32 564 820 The Pentium MMX at 290.5, although clocked at a speed about 3% greater than the Pentium MMX 300, provided excellent competition. Its Business Winstone score of 57.6, although 8.9 points lower than the Pentium II at 300, is extremely good for a processor lacking any onchip (or in this case, "on card" cache). The difference between the CPUMark scores is very small, except whe ndealing with 32bit scores, the Pentium II's strongpoint. Who would've guessed that a < $300 chip could perform almost as well as a > $700 chip...both made by the same company! The only problem I see here is getting the Pentium MMX stable at 290.5MHz, when testing it, the system crashed a few times however I believe most of the crashes were caused by inefficient cooling (I didn't use any thermal compound). I picked the Shuttle HOT-569 to conduct the tests on because of its excellent performance and stability with the Pentium MMX at 290.5 as well as its SDRAM support. I chose the Megatrends FX83-A for all of the Pentium II tests since it is the fastest performing Pentium II motherboard I have tested so far, and it continues to prove its excellence in the Quake tests below...although you do get to see some interesting results... WinQuake Performance Pentium MMX vs Pentium II Business Winstone 97 Resolution Intel Pentium MMX Intel Pentium II 320 x 200 61.9 fps 57.3 fps 512 x 384 25.9 fps 35.8 fps 640 x 400 25.9 fps 31.7 fps Paul