Recent content by JCholewa

Swanny: Saying that the Itanium's 32-bit performance is slow is misleading. You could only use 32-bit datatypes all throughout and only reference the first 2^32 bytes of memory, and you'll get a system with reasonably fast performance. Itanium is not slow in 32-bit apps. It is slow when you...

> I had the oportunity to test the non compiled version about > a week ago and got 149 seconds ...what? There's an interpreted version of povray? What language? Perl? *_* -JC *EDIT* Sorry, sorry, I jest! ^_^ Incidentally, I put up an impromptu interactive table of povray scores if...

> OS440 reported 115 seconds @ 1700MHz, but yours are 149 seconds @ 1800MHz Speculation: Perhaps he got 1:49, which is 109 seconds. This would make sense, as given 115 seconds at 1700MHz, a P4 at 1800MHz would be expected to score around 108.61111 seconds if the test were perfectly linear...

The K6 family is generally a speed grade faster in software not intimately tied to the processor's floating-point unit. A K6-200 is somewhat like a P233MMX in this respect. So, a K6-2-266 might be much like a 300MHz Pentium MMX, if such a thing existed in the desktop world. The K6-2-266 also...

There is no program out there that stresses all components of a system and all cases. You should use a combination of the best ones you can find. Running prime95 and 3DMark simultaneously is a start.

> USB CDRWs are not very reliable I have a USB writer (the HP 8200e) that I use on a K6-2-500 and a Duron-800. With all my programs open, the K6-2-500 doesn't have any problems burning. When, though, I'm running the TV tuner program for my G200 (which is a problematic beta program on win2k)...

Jay: Plenty of reviews out there did same clock comparisons. Imho, you people are being criminal by ignoring the Hardware.fr review.

systemshock: You obviously weren't around During the K6-2 and Celeron days. Tom Pabst is not pro-AMD and anti-Intel. Not at all. Before the K7 core came out, he we criticized continually for his "Intel-biased" articles and accused of being on the Intel payroll. Just because he has...

Just for what it's worth, "Deutschland" is Germany.

The i815 will have a 100MHz clock, 400MT/s connection to the cpu and to the memory. The memory is an even number of either PC800 or PC600 DRDRAMs (do NOT get PC600 -- it is possible though unconfirmed that this could kill performance incredibly!!) operating in parallel for twice the effective...

id: If you are thinking about the same thing that I am thinking about, then I think that you are remembering it slightly incorrectly. It was not disclosed which magazine it was. My website was the source of that information (http://www.jc-news.com/pc/?peek=200010292120), and the precise quote...

Sorry, sorry, I know this is spammish, but I'm greedy and I'm pining just like that tnaw guy. :) c't (http://www.heise.de/ct) put up (in print, but not on their website yet) a slew of P4 benchmarks. I put up some of them here. The results are really, really telling. Essentially, imho, you...

IaPuP: Q3A, in fact, is incredibly fast on the Pentium 4, because Q3A is a memory bandwidth hog. Surprisingly, it is nearly unique in this respect pertaining to games, as most others (like UT or Drakan) would, I'm told, show a Tbird/Athlon at 1.20GHz easily outperforming the fastest P4. BTW...

Sudheer: I have to disagree. First time I used a Dreamcast controller, my reaction was, "wow, this thing is really easy on the hands!". I mean, before that I practically gagged at the sight of it. I mean, WTF, a built-in LCD??? Imho, the original PSX controllers were awful. The...

Midnight Rambler: Your Intel research is comatose. I'm looking at an Intel Confidential roadmap right in front of me. Publicly, my information is backed up by PC Watch Japan, which is usually pretty solid with their Intel roadmap reporting. Your retort? The Register said so?!? The same...