"Sleepy" <bpespleyremovetheobvious@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Donald McTrevor" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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http://www.cpu-world.com/cgi-bin/Com...ACTION=Compare
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> > Hello I am just curious to know why the 'doom' benchmaks do not show any
> > improvement when going froom the K6/2 to the Pentium II 933mhz.
> > The 1100 Duron ain't much better either.
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> > ??? Explaination ???
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> I dont for a second believe those figures are anything like accurate - 3D
> games demand good floating point performance from a processor and the
Cyrix
> was abysmal at that. The idea that a Cyrix 300 could give 60% of the
> framerate you'd get from even a PII300 would stretch crudility never mind
a
> 933mhz chip.


I don't see why we should doubt the figures as I a sure they would have
been questioned if the results looked wong.
Anyway the 300mhz K6/2 I bought for a £1 out performed the PIII 933mhz!!
So I am happy,
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