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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (3327)	11/2/1998 12:13:00 PM
From: Dave Hanson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

FWIW, I just registered the Opera Browser ($18 educational discount, $35 normally.) Gave my info to the secure server yesterday, and got my code and thank-you properly today. I've been very impressed with beta 10 of version 3.5. Works much better than their beta 9. It doesn't always work perfectly, but the problems are very minor. I can keep dozens of windows open at once, if I want, in the same memory space a a few NS or IE windows, and it's much faster than either of them. I usually have no problems with java applets either.

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (3327)	11/2/1998 12:46:00 PM
From: Dirk Hente	Respond to of 14778

I got a 1 GigaFLOP engine, at least this is what WinTune98 is telling me. The test details are as follows: CPU (2) Intel Pentium II with MMX@453 MHz Video Board Matrox Graphics MGA Millennium Video Mode 1152x864@16bits/pixel RAM 128 MB OS Windows NT 4.0.1381 Service Pack 3 Area Tested Value CPU Integer 2712,784 MIPS CPU Floating Point 1111,111 MFLOPS Video(2D) 78,2368 MPixels/s Direct3D 8,961691 MPixels/s OpenGL 8,136933 MPixels/s Memory 845,3782 MB/s Cached Disk 218,4896 MB/s Uncached Disk 1,818975 MB/s I don't understand the weak results for OpenGL. Thoogh I enabled the OpenGL and '3D acceleration' in the Matrox panel my no name graphic card on my second computer is even faster under Win98. I got the above test results with my 2nd graphic card disabled. However, the results are nearly the same for a dual minotor setup. The floating point peformance is really great (this is what i really need..and even more). Sure, you can't get this CPU performance unless your application program is multi threaded. So far none of my business applications (MathCad and Flotherm) is multi threaded. But I gain very much because I can use my applications in parallel and they are affecting each other very little. On the other hand, Communicator and IE are multi threaded. But the CPU load from browsers is not so high. It seems that browsing the net is somewhat smoother with multiple browser windows open. Unless you have a floating point intensive multi threaded application or you are using applications with heavy CPU load in parallel , I wouldn't recommend a dual PII450. Its just too expensive you gain very little (AFAIK a DEll dual PII450 costs you 7000$ or so). But I build mine for only 1800$ (not counting my effort). YA..its really nice.