Re: Speed Comparison
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- Subject: [mg38519] Re: Speed Comparison
- From: "Robert G. Wilson v" <rgwv at kspaint.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 23:40:30 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Kansas Paint & Color Co.
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Dear Flip, I run Windows 2000 with all the latest updates, and Mathematica version 4.1.0.0. My machine is an Athlon thunderbird 1200 MHz chip on a One-Main mother board @ 133 with 512 Meg double speed Ram and in comparison with other Intel chips I seem to run circles around them. Bob. flip wrote: > Hello, > > I am due for a new computer and my driving requirement is Mathematica speed. > > I was wondering if anyone could recommend which processor family (Intel or > AMD) and which OS (Win NT or WXP) has the best speed comparison. > > I read a statement that said the AMD runs circles for FP ops. over Intel, > but there was no more detail, so I was wondering. > > Note: I have always thought about going MAC, but just have too much software > that I use and cannot afford to. > > Thanks for any guidance, Flip > > Remove "_alpha" to email me. > > >