Re: Dual Athlon, AGP, and PCI

[Paul G. Allen]

David Looney wrote:
> 

[SNIP]
> In general your dual athlon system whupped mine good, especially in the Dhrystone/Whetstone categories (more than 2x), and it did ~50% better in almost every category except process creation (some overhead for dual cpu machines ?) So it would seem to scale reasonably.
> 
> OTOH, what about bang for buck ?  I built the basic machine (case/power supply/motherboard/cpu/mem/20 GB HD/8MB matrox AGP) for about $280, but added about another $170 of stuff (PCI sound, PCI linmodem, NIC, panasonic CD/CDR/CDRW). I am sure others out there could probably do much better though, as I just bought stuff from catalogs or retail, and didn't scrounge.
> 

~$2600 for this machine:

Dual Athlon 1.4GHz (non-MP) ($229 ech.)
Tyan K7 Thunder ($600)
 - Dual Channel Ultra 160 SCSI (AIC7899P)
 - ATA 100 IDE
 - Dual 3c980 TX 10/100 NICs
 - 4 port USB
 - 6 64/32-bit PCI 2.0 slots
 - 1 AGP Pro slot
 - Onboard I/O
 - Winbond hardware monitor
256MB ECC Reg. DDR SDRAM ($99)
IBM Ultra 160 36GB HDD ($609)
IBM ATA100 30GB HDD ($169)
Yamaha DVD-ROM ($30)
Sony 52x CDROM ($40)
Asus V8200 (GeForce 3) Deluxe (64MB DDR) ($415)
Sound Blaster Live! ($99)
Full Tower case w/NMB 450W power supply ($159)

I ran the test in multi-user mode (silly me, I was half asleep when I
ran it and not thinking :). I will run it in single in a bit and re-post
the results. I also need to find a 3D/graphics benchmark besides Quake
3. (Hey, anyone remember how to enable the FPS display in Quake 3?)

PGA

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Paul G. Allen
UNIX Admin II/Network Security
Akamai Technologies, Inc.
www.akamai.com