> what it will tell you is that the m2 166 falls between the pentium-120 and
> the pentium-133.
Thats heavilly numeric intensive code. With more normal code it performs better
than that.
It probably won't outperform a P-II, then again, it's not necessarilly going
to be MUCH slower either.
> Also to build a kernel for one of these beasts, you need to apply one of
> the numerous Cyrix patches.
A standard kernel works fine. Using set686 will squeeze a bit more performance
out.
> On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> recently I got an offer for an IBM6x86MX233 based computer. Looks
>> pretty good (even a bit faster than iPII-233 due to the larger cache)...
>> Are there any arguments against buying such a beast ?
>> Is there a FAQ on Linux' CPU support ? Perhaps a comparison of
>> performance and throughput ?
>> Are there (besides the ones that appeared in this mailing list past
>> weekend) any blacklisted single-processor main boards ?
Dual P133 does kernel builds (make -j2) in 5-6 minutes,
Cy686MMX (2*75M) PR200 3.5 minutes.
Check the Cyrix home pages. www.cyrix.com and
http://wauug.erols.com/~balsa/linux/cyrix/
Value for money I'd say they are an excellent buy.
As a general comment, if you plot CPU benchmarks with the axis starting at 0 :)
you'll see there's damn all difference in performance between the various high
end machines. Plotting performance against $ is even more interesting.
Work out how much you are prepared to spend for 5% extra performance ...
The only bad thing I can say about them is that they often get put into cheap
machines with cheap motherboards.
>> Every hint is welcome.
Peter
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E-Mail: P.Waltenberg@irl.cri.nz
Date: 03-Feb-98
Time: 08:32:16
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