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My goal is to prove that the 3rd root of 3 is irrational. I use the same method as proving sqrt(2) is irrational, however, I ran into a question. When proving sqrt(2), we use a statement that because a^2 = 2b^2, a^2 is even and therefore a must also be. This is intuitive, but for 3rd root of...

FC-PGA2 is just the Pentium III's FC-PGA design with a Pentium 4-style heat speader on it. It is supposed to be featured on the Pentium III 1GHz cD0. It's mentioned here: http://developer.intel.com/design/pcn/Processors/D0001051.htm

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I'm looking for icons that are somewhat like the icons of the G4 that Apple uses but instead show the Athlon T-bird, Pentium III FC-PGA, and Pentium 4 individually?

Well, I just ran it with 512MB of Corsair PC133 (222), and it reports 162. So I assume that the video card does affect the CPU speed score.

I have a Matrox G200 and therefore my full test score is typically 920-1000. I plan on getting a new video card sometime soon, but I wouldn't think that it would affect the CPU speed mark. Other benchmarking/real applications appear to be running at proper speed, so I imagine it's not a CPU...

Aside from the CPU itself, do any other factors affect the score? I have a Pentium III 1GHz, and I'm getting a score of 160 in the CPU speed test; much lower than it should be. I have my RAM running at 100MHz, so that could be part of the problem (getting my PC133 this Wednesday), but I...

After installing Windows Me, to enable UDMA, I put a check the DMA box (as I heard the Intel drivers weren't so good). However, once it reboots, the system is very jerky as it appears each time the drive is accessed, it pauses. Well, I disabled DMA, and then installed the Intel drivers, which...

Yes, you're right, current chipsets won't support Tualatin. However, Intel was (last I checked) going to release a slimmed down version of Tualatin (I believe it was codenamed Tualatin-E) that they said would run in 815EP, but not early revision 815E.

I believe I read somewhere that the 815EP will support the cut down Tualatin, the one that doesn't require it to have a 200MHz bus.

Assuming that the distributed.net speed page is correct, the P4 will get approximately 5.18MNodes/sec in OGR @ 1300MHz. I would recommend running RC5 on it. We need all the help we can get :).

I doubt the Dreamcast CPU will be very helpful at RC5. Game consoles use and need floating point operations significantly more than they do integer operations, which explains the high optimization of the FPU. Take for example the Playstation 2's CPU. It is many, many times faster than the...

Anyone know of a such a program that can do that calculation? Or, better yet, does anyone know how to write such a program in VB/VC++? Thanks. -Mike

Oops, answered the wrong question.

No, I haven't joined a team yet. As soon as I get my motherboard/CPU upgrade done, I'll probably join you guys.