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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ed Sammons who wrote (42180)	11/25/1998 2:44:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572099

<1. K6-3 400 loads 7-8 seconds faster vs PII-450. 2. K6-3 400 finished test 15 seconds faster than PII-450. Result: K6-3 400 test runtime is 7-8 seconds faster than PII-450. Conclusion: The K6-3 beat a Pentium II which is one speed grade higher.> Wrong. The benchmark Winstone isn't processor-only, you know. There's a whole lot of everything going on in the benchmark, from disk accesses to graphics to processor-intensive stuff. A faster disk is definitely going to help benchmark execution as well as the loading times. Like I said before, I'll wait for Tom's Hardware Guide to do some benchmarking before I start making any conclusions about the K6-3. <PS: Given the same hard drive, which machine would you expect to load the test suite faster: the faster or slower machine?> The faster machine, of course. But by a whole 7 to 8 seconds? You don't get that kind of improvement with just a processor upgrade, you know. Tenchusatsu