Re: Athlon doesn't like Athlon optimisation?

[Nicholas Knight <tegeran@home.com>]

On Friday 31 August 2001 01:27 am, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

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> Now I also wrote the 2 functions in question, and I am
> very convinced that they are correct. They also work on
> the vast majority of motherboards, and most of the failure
> cases are cheaper motherboards (or cheap PSU's).

Want cheap hardware?
Slot-A Athlon 800Mhz non-tbird
Soyo K7VIA motherboard, VIA KX133 chipset
Generic 300W power supply bought from mwave

and, for the other hardware:

1 DVD-ROM drive
1 Plextor PlexWriter CD-RW drive
1 IBM 75GXP 7200RPM 45GB ATA/100 drive
1 Promise ATA/100 HDD controller
1 350MB Western Digital Caviar drive, but this powers down completely 
when not in use
2 Generic 80mm case fans
1 low-end HSF unit with three small fans
1 GeForce2MX
1 stick of generic 256MB PC133 SDRAM that refuses to run at 133Mhz
1 ISA NIC
1 PCI NIC
1 floppy drive, sony I think, otherwise generic

I have never experienced problems with Athlon optimizations, and I 
*always* compile with them enabled.

Prehaps the key lies in Thunderbird vs Non-Thunderbird? When did these 
problems start showing up, and at what clock speeds? What motherboards? 
What chipsets?

>Greetings,
>     Arjan van de Ven