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Re: Evergreen 701C upgrade results



On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Eric Giles wrote:

> they claim). Here are Evergreen's results:
> 
> Configuration                                    Winstone 97 score
> ------------------------------                          --------------------
> ------
> 486/50 4MB                                         Test would not run (Duh!)
> 486/50 20MB                                        7.16
> 586/133 20MB                                      16.4

The 701 has a 25MHz bus.  133MHz on the CPU is impossible unless
they're using something really weird like a 5.33x clock
multiplier (read unliklely). 

My hunch is that in addition to installing the processor, they
tweaked the bus speed up to 33 MHz.  While that may work for
some machines, it will probably fail on most, at least under hot
or strenuous circumstances (the components are only tested to
25MHz, otherwise IBM would've made it 33MHz to begin with).
--
John H. Kim
kim@mak.com