Noticed something on wiki

[moo]

I noticed the hardware section on the wiki is empty mabey we should post some of the fallowing
-benchmarks
-a short on which is better for tf amd64 or intel
-a short on which is better for ll amd64 or intel
-new hardware coming that could improve speeds
-ideas on usage of hardware
-aup (acctable use policty) such as mass installs that arnt legal are not welcome

[Peter Nelson]

Originally Posted by moo

I noticed the hardware section on the wiki is empty mabey we should post some of the fallowing
-benchmarks
-a short on which is better for tf amd64 or intel
-a short on which is better for ll amd64 or intel
-new hardware coming that could improve speeds
-ideas on usage of hardware
-aup (acctable use policty) such as mass installs that arnt legal are not welcome

Maybe so moo, in which case I think it ought to include that TF is significantly faster on a 64 bit capable processor (when running a 64 bit and prime95-supporting OS which for most people means Windows XP 64 Pro but there are others).

I wouldn't buy another 32 bit cpu. It could list which processors can do 64 bit and which can't. Also mention that it is possible now to run prime95 on the Intel-based macs if they are running XP.

[moo]

I heard some benchmarks are faster on intel macs.

[Dresdenboy]

Originally Posted by Peter Nelson

Maybe so moo, in which case I think it ought to include that TF is significantly faster on a 64 bit capable processor (when running a 64 bit and prime95-supporting OS which for most people means Windows XP 64 Pro but there are others).

That's true, but so far only AMD's x64 CPUs could show a significant speedup thanks to a fast integer division I suppose. This could also be true for NGMA, but it isn't the case for Prescott (with its high latency division routine thanks to the superpipelined architecture).

[moo]

what about lls. is it the prescot or a64