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THE MOST INANE THING TO DO.........

What a huge waste of 300 hours. That article is 1.5 years old but I've never seen it. Shows how much I go to Tom's site.
 
THG is full of crap and thats why as stated earlier this was the most inane thing I have ever come across........next time we can expect a comparo between an extinct ENIAC and a prescott......
 
funny stuff🙂 i remember that damned cache module cr@p. horrid. sad bit is we still use pci slots though..bah. i've run a p90 with 64mb on win2k heh,...nightmare slow.
 
It's not insane. It provides a crystal clear picture of CPU scaling and where you would need to upgrade from to get your desired effect. I would reallly like it if people would stop to see the good in articles, instead of declaring them 'Crap' the moment they see the three letters 'THG'
 
It's not insane. It provides a crystal clear picture of CPU scaling and where you would need to upgrade from to get your desired effect. I would reallly like it if people would stop to see the good in articles, instead of declaring them 'Crap' the moment they see the three letters 'THG'
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Its obvious that xp is going to run on any 32 bit processor that can adress 2^32 bits of memory.It should be able to run a 486DX also. Honestly speaking I love thrashing up systems, where old PCs are made to run number crunching programs. This is an 'insane' idea though, insane in a sarcastic way. And honestly speaking i always hated THG, so the derogatory remarks against THG were not sarcastic, but my own opinion.
I must admit though this comparo test was kinda innovative.
 
Originally posted by: FishTankX
It's not insane. It provides a crystal clear picture of CPU scaling and where you would need to upgrade from to get your desired effect. I would reallly like it if people would stop to see the good in articles, instead of declaring them 'Crap' the moment they see the three letters 'THG'
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Agreed! I find the CPU comparison chart extremely useful! I only wish they'd update it with A64 and Prescott processors! It's nice to see them all side-by-side. It sure helps the buying decision of "what if..."
 
Originally posted by: thermalpaste
It's not insane. It provides a crystal clear picture of CPU scaling and where you would need to upgrade from to get your desired effect. I would reallly like it if people would stop to see the good in articles, instead of declaring them 'Crap' the moment they see the three letters 'THG'
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Its obvious that xp is going to run on any 32 bit processor that can adress 2^32 bits of memory.It should be able to run a 486DX also. Honestly speaking I love thrashing up systems, where old PCs are made to run number crunching programs. This is an 'insane' idea though, insane in a sarcastic way. And honestly speaking i always hated THG, so the derogatory remarks against THG were not sarcastic, but my own opinion.
I must admit though this comparo test was kinda innovative.
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Well, honestly some people are running Geforce2MX's on the board, that are just as antiquated as some of the CPU's in that article. In my opinion, the massive comparison shows you how systems are going to perform under upgrades. Like, 'What if I upgraded my P2 450 up to a 2GHz P4' or what not. It's a good starting point to start contemplating upgrades. Like, I saw my friend yesterday playing Quake III on a P233 and a Voodoo 2. And it played. He uses it as a backup box. But if he wanted to upgrade that box with another AT mobo/CPU, he could go to that article to see how much improvement he could get at the CPU level.
 
installing win-me on the 486DX took 19 hours. boot up time was like 40 minutes.



Well, honestly some people are running Geforce2MX's on the board, that are just as antiquated as some of the CPU's in that article. In my opinion, the massive comparison shows you how systems are going to perform under upgrades. Like, 'What if I upgraded my P2 450 up to a 2GHz P4' or what not. It's a good starting point to start contemplating upgrades. Like, I saw my friend yesterday playing Quake III on a P233 and a Voodoo 2. And it played. He uses it as a backup box. But if he wanted to upgrade that box with another AT mobo/CPU, he could go to that article to see how much improvement he could get at the CPU level.
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I ran Quake -III arena on a pentium-90 with a voodoo-2 and 96Mb RAM at 512X384X16. I remember it used to detect the CPU as : detecting CPU: found p5/ppro -non MMX.....it gave me 6-7 fps when playing demo001
Oh I miss those old days where hard disks used to get thrashed around because of heavy memory load................
 
I setup XP on a P233 64MB for me mum and it was fine. More memory than that would not have been cacheable but may have prevented some paging. A modern HDD helped with that and knowing how to setup XP like disabling crap services and junk but you have to do that with any system. So a P100 with 512MB prolly wouldn't be bad at all and much better to be reliable and perhaps slightly slower than unreliable as with '98 or whatever.
 
So a P100 with 512MB prolly wouldn't be bad at all and much better to be reliable and perhaps slightly slower than unreliable as with '98 or whatever
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When I ran Sisoft sandra memory benchmark on the pentium it gave me 89Mbps, which is slower than today's fastest hard drive.............
 
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