From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 20:20:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 20:19:52 -0400 Received: from cx570538-a.elcjn1.sdca.home.com ([24.5.14.144]:13953 "EHLO keroon.dmz.dreampark.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 20:19:38 -0400 Message-ID: <3B6DE195.C604879A@randomlogic.com> Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 17:15:17 -0700 From: "Paul G. Allen" Organization: Akamai Technologies, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kplug-list@kernel-panic.org, "Linux kernel developer's mailing list" Subject: Re: Dual Athlon, AGP, and PCI In-Reply-To: <200108050019.f750J6t24095@antimatter.net> <3B6D2304.E3D9D83E@randomlogic.com> <20010805095853.04315de4.dlooney1@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Looney wrote: > [SNIP] > In general your dual athlon system whupped mine good, especially in the Dhrystone/Whetstone categories (more than 2x), and it did ~50% better in almost every category except process creation (some overhead for dual cpu machines ?) So it would seem to scale reasonably. > > OTOH, what about bang for buck ? I built the basic machine (case/power supply/motherboard/cpu/mem/20 GB HD/8MB matrox AGP) for about $280, but added about another $170 of stuff (PCI sound, PCI linmodem, NIC, panasonic CD/CDR/CDRW). I am sure others out there could probably do much better though, as I just bought stuff from catalogs or retail, and didn't scrounge. > ~$2600 for this machine: Dual Athlon 1.4GHz (non-MP) ($229 ech.) Tyan K7 Thunder ($600) - Dual Channel Ultra 160 SCSI (AIC7899P) - ATA 100 IDE - Dual 3c980 TX 10/100 NICs - 4 port USB - 6 64/32-bit PCI 2.0 slots - 1 AGP Pro slot - Onboard I/O - Winbond hardware monitor 256MB ECC Reg. DDR SDRAM ($99) IBM Ultra 160 36GB HDD ($609) IBM ATA100 30GB HDD ($169) Yamaha DVD-ROM ($30) Sony 52x CDROM ($40) Asus V8200 (GeForce 3) Deluxe (64MB DDR) ($415) Sound Blaster Live! ($99) Full Tower case w/NMB 450W power supply ($159) I ran the test in multi-user mode (silly me, I was half asleep when I ran it and not thinking :). I will run it in single in a bit and re-post the results. I also need to find a 3D/graphics benchmark besides Quake 3. (Hey, anyone remember how to enable the FPS display in Quake 3?) PGA -- Paul G. Allen UNIX Admin II/Network Security Akamai Technologies, Inc. www.akamai.com