Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 13:07:07 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: mika ruohotie <bsdhack@shadows.aeon.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: speed test Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970814124121.1580Q-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <13234.871558788@time.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > But the alpha thing is odd, what's the alpha's memory bus speed and what > > byte width memory does it use. Is that 166MB/s show above approaching the > > I'm not sure what the bus speed is, but the memory width is 64 bit. > You have to use 8 SIMMS at a time with the Durango motherboard, > nothing smaller. Okay, x86 architecture sucks in comparison, I new this already. I suppose it interleaves each group of 8 64bit SIMMS. Shame PC's have so much archaic backwards compatibility... (seen this topic before!) > > > If so, then that alpha better not have cost more than 2000 UK pounds (or > > $2000 I suppose considering the price of hardware here.) > > It's less than that and remains a pretty good deal. Don't forget that > memory speed isn't the only benchmark it wins. :-) Yes, I think the memory speed test has been overhyped and it's meaning lost a bit, make world is a more useful benchmark perhaps, but really all these numbers (SpecINT etc.) don't impress me that much. Really what's the difference between an alpha fileserver and an Intel fileserver both with a good RAID setup ? (apart from cost.) The disks in an alpha probably aren't going to be much/any faster than the same disks in a pentium are they ? -- Steve Roome - Vision Interactive Ltd. Tel:+44(0)117 9730597 Home:+44(0)976 241342 WWW: http://dylan.visint.co.uk/
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