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 -.bill.layer.- -.those who are talking don't know, and those who know aren't talking.- -.frogtown.- -.minnesota.- -.u.s.a.-