On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:14:47 -0500
"Tom Hudak" <thudak at sistina.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 02:41:12AM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote:
> >Anyone else seeing terrible performance on AMD Athlong processors?
> My dad's 1Ghz is blazing fast.

I've got a Duron 700 @ 850Mhz - this is the '200Mhz' FSB part, with 512MB
of PC133 RAM on an ABIT KT-7 RAID motherboard. It absolutely screams, it
is the all-around fastest desktop I have ever used on any regular basis. 

Disk performance is very acceptable too... (hdparm is run from an xterm in
this case)

root at Homer:/home/UserX/gnut# hdparm -Tt /dev/hde

/dev/hde:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.85 seconds =150.59 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  2.21 seconds = 28.96 MB/sec




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