Re: Athlon doesn't like Athlon optimisation?

David Hollister
2001-09-05T15:56:36Z

Eric Olson wrote:
> Robert Redelmeier told me he has written a version of his burnMMX which
> uses K7 MMX 3DNow streaming cache bypass load/store instruction sequences
> similar to what is used in linux/arch/i386/lib/mmx.c
>
> It would be particularly interesting if someone with a problematic KT133A
> based motherboard would test it and report back.

Ran both burnK7 and burnMMX for 10+ minutes with no problems. FWIW, burnMMX
didn't do much to my system temp, but burnK7 raised it by a good 8-9 degrees.

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