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fastest floating point operation as possible
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?? Thanks, Paul |
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