65 CPUs From 100 MHz to 3066 MHz

socram writes " Tom's Hardware posted an interesting article, describing and benchmarking 65 kinds of CPUs from 1994 to 2003. Opinions on what constitutes "adequate computing speed" vary greatly from one user to the next. While one person may be perfectly content with an old Pentium 133 system that stores stamp club membership details in a DOS program in "real-time mode", there is another group at the other end of the scale - video fans who must have the latest and greatest and who will clamor for more and more Gigahertz and gigabytes."

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old theory

[RobertTaylor]

video fans who must have the latest and greatest and who will clamor for more and more Gigahertz and gigabytes.

There is an old theory to do with penis size...

For the record, I am running a 286 ;)

Re:old theory

[frozenray]

> There is an old theory to do with penis size...

Try this script (stolen from someones Usenet signature):

penislength.sh:

echo `uptime|grep days|sed 's/.*up \([0-9]*\) day.*/\1\/10+/'; \
cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep MHz|awk '{print $4"/30 +";}'; free|grep '^Mem' \
|awk '{print $3"/1024/3+"}'; df -P -k -x nfs | grep -v 1k \
| awk '{if ($1 ~ "/dev/(scsi|sd)"){ s+= $2} s+= $2;} END \
{print s/1024/50"/15+70";}'`|bc|sed 's/\(.$\)/.\1cm/'

The constants in the script are probably in need of revision, since running it on my puny 350 MHz Linux box (SCSI and over 450 days uptime) rates me at a respectable 22 cm, but I'm not complaining :-). (Note: if you have one of those 3+ GHz screamers, I don't want to know the results, ok?)

Conversion to imperial units is left as an exercise to the reader.

100 MegaHertz? You were lucky!

[Burb]

(Cue Monty Python Yorkshiremen Sketch)

Prediction: This discussion will end up with someone wittering on about punch cards, paper tape, and front panel access to core memory.

Then someone else will recall the Dilbert cartoon where the engineer boasts "I made a database entirely out of zeros because we had no ones".

Oh, damn, done it myself.

Re:100 MegaHertz? You were lucky!

[stud9920]

I only have one mod point left so I'm sitting here completely torn between the two posts

You are lucky ! When I was your age, my whole family prayed the local moderation baron to get one mod point to share with the whole family.

Incidently, posting in this thread rendered your mod point useless in it. Spoiled kid, you don't know haw lucky you are.

Who read this as...

[The_Mutato]

"65 CPUs that were overclocked from 100 mhz to 3.06 ghz"?? I know I certainly did...

Thank you, Captain Obvious!

[llamaluvr]

Tom's Hardware brings you this startling revelation: Newer processors are faster than older processors!

Sorry not very awake atm

[OneArmedMan]

THG

Re:Thank you, Captain Obvious!

[Hanno]

You forgot to mention their site layout:

Newer. (Click next)

Processors. (Click next)

Are. (Click next)

Faster. (Click next)

Than. (Click next)

Older. (Click next)

Processors. (Click next)

Wow this is great!

[MongooseCN]

I didn't know a P4 3.06Ghz CPU was noticably faster than my P100 in OpenGL. I guess it's time to upgrade my Quaking machine!

--Ghz == more productive

[skillet-thief]

Just because I have an old machine doesn't mean I can't make productive use of it. All right, I can't do gaming, but my Pentium 333 machine suffices for everything else.

You are probably more productive since you can't do gaming on your box. I know that any game on whatever box I'm working on definitely cuts way into my productivity (as does access to /.).