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Date:      Wed, 16 Apr 1997 10:49:05 -0700
From:      "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
To:        Aron Roberts <aroberts@wolfenet.com>
Cc:        Thomas Arnold <tom@inna.net>, Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk>, Dave Alderman <dave@persprog.com>, hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Pentuim or Pentuim Pro ? 
Message-ID:  <199704161749.KAA07608@MindBender.serv.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 16 Apr 97 02:02:37 -0700. <335495AD.1C01F62A@wolfenet.com> 

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>If I find the time I'll be benching an AMD K6/200 vs. an Intel
>P5/200-MMX.. I'd like to also throw in a PPRO but I want to do nothing
>other than swap the chips...
>
>More than likely I'll bench under NetBSD 1.2.1 but if I find the time I
>might do FreeBSD 2.2.1 as well.

I don't know what benchmark you're using, but if you send it to me I
can benchmark it on my Pentium Pro 200MHz (actually overclocked to
233, so that might be cheating :-), running NetBSD 1.2.  I also have a
Cyrix 6x86 P166+, and can use a Pentium 133.  All are running NetBSD
1.2.

>Let me know what benchmarks you want to see.. I'll probably get around
>to it sometime next week.

I'm not picky -- I just don't have the one you're running. :-)

The ones I've run in the past are pretty simple.  I wouldn't mind
seeing some more complex benchmarks.  Suggestions from anyone?

>preliminary reports from popping the K6 into my NT box is that it is 
>"da sh*t". I'll grab an OpenGL board and pound on it with softimage in
>the mean time.

Yeah, I've had the same thing to say about my Pentium Pro ever since I
got it.  For about a month, I would just mutter "Damn this thing is
fast" every time I did something intense on it (I run NT on it most of
the time).  It plays a hellish game of Descent, too. :-)

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