[CS-FSLUG] QOTW: Megahurtz Race

[Jukka Y]

Hi!

So here is what my "race" has been so far:

First ran 16 MHz (used MacIntosh LC with Motorola 68020-processor). I sold 
after two years of experimenting because I couln't afford MacIntosh-programs. 
There was some "performance" values for it (http://www.lowendmac.com/lc/
lc.shtml): 1.8, relative to SE (compare to 2.4 for Mac II); 0.87, MacBench 
2.0 CPU; 3.31, Speedometer 3.06; 0.22, Speedometer 4; 2.6 MIPS

Second one was ran 10 MHz (used IBM PS/1 Notebook with Intel 80286). My first 
- and only - notebook...During this time I got my first touch with Linux (I 
installed Slackware 3.4.0 on it from floppies). It died with some unknown 
hardware failure after few months of use.

Third one had 33MHz (some used pc-clone PC with Intel 80386 SX-processor). It 
worked fine and now it is covered with dust somewhere in storage-room...good 
machine - which introduced me linux with GUI (Redhat, SuSE, Mandrake, Caldera 
Openlinux, Turbolinux, Storm-Linux etc, etc).

Fourth - my current one - had 2x366 MHz (new "white-box" 2xCeleron "Mendocino" 
SL36C on Abit BP6-motherboard). After 3 years of use, one of processors died 
because of motherboard failure and (after replacing old BP6 motherboard) I 
used only one processor (1x366 Mhz) for a while. Then about 6 months ago I 
upgraded it to 2x 500Mhz (Celeron "Mendocino" SL3FY)-processors. 

In addition to my desktop-computer, I have Palm m505-handheld, which runs 33 
MHz (it uses Motorola Dragonball VZ-processor). I feel it a bit slow, but it 
serves ,me well enough (for some note-taking and small databases) so I have 
decided not to upgrade it very soon.

I feel my current desktop is quite responsive in all kind of things I do 
(currently - in addition to usual "office"-programs - I do a lot of image 
processing + some cad-drawing/svg-graphics), thought I have some plans to buy 
a new >2600 MHz-machine ;).

(btw. thanks for these "QOTW"'s - they give us all a good chance to 
participate, even not having much experties ;).


Blessings,
Jukka

(John 13:34-35 NIV)

On Tuesday 11 May 2004 06:11, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> What was the megahertz speed of your first computer? What is the speed
> of your present computer? Have you ever owned a system with a
> "performance rating" instead of a MHz rating? Do you check your system
> speed to see if it really is running at the advertised speed?
>
> I'm not sure, to be honest -- I'd have to check to see what the TI
> 99/4A's specs where. My first PC compatible ran at 33 MHz, though (it
> was a Intel 486 DX).
>
> My current PC runs at 2.66 GHz (but, to answer the last question, its
> actual speed is 2657.883). It's a Pentium 4 without Hyperthreading... HT
> boxen run at .06 less GHz. My Mac runs at 2.0 GHz (yes, that's the
> actual speed too).
>
> I've never run a "performance rating" processor. Although, if I were
> building a DIY PC compatible at the moment, I'd be very tempted by the
> AMD Athlon 64. (Offtopic: Remember when Cyrix was trying to do a non-MHz
> rating in the mid-90's?)
>
> 	-Tim