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Paul Spitalny wrote:
Hi,
I have a machine with a pentium4 2.52Ghz processor with 1Gig of Rambus
memory. I think the bus speed is 500Mhz (or thereabouts)? The machine is
about 1.5 years old.


The question I have is this:

Most of my computer work involves simulations that bring the processor
to its knees (doing floating point math). I am wondering if by going to
the newest Intel chipset (pentium4 extreme with 3.2HGz clock and 800Mhz
bus) whether I'll get a significant increase in speed beyond the sheer
clock speed increase? That is, will the speed improvement only be
3.2Ghz/2.5GHz = 1.28 (28 % speed increase), or, is the architecture and
bus speed going to give me much more performance than I currently have??




The specfp site seems to indicate the fastest machine, under some
cases, is an AMD Opteron on a ASUS SK8N Motherboard. There's lots
of info there.

http://www.specbench.org/cpu2000/results/res2003q4/


Thanks,

Paul






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