AMD K6/2 faster than a 933MHz Pentium II?

[Donald McTrevor]

Then why did you try to upgrade it?

Because I found out how to do those things after I tried to upgrade it.
I also expected the upgrade to make it do things faster.

No, it does not do all the things, because one of those
always-present parameters of use is the time/performance.

It can do all I want it to do at the moment.

What does that have to do with the system? Nothing.
The box is incredibly slow at video compression and a new
system would do it in less than 1/10th the time.

I think it would need to do it in about 1/20th of the time for it to
do it in real time.

 

[Donald McTrevor]

Then why did you try to upgrade it?
No, it does not do all the things, because one of those
always-present parameters of use is the time/performance.


What does that have to do with the system? Nothing.
The box is incredibly slow at video compression and a new
system would do it in less than 1/10th the time.



Average CPU is not what matters. It's whether the system
respondes well, fast enough during the brief moments when
100% CPU _IS_ called for. The average user does not have
their system always running at 100% either,

I expect they do some of the time.

 

[kony]

I think it would need to do it in about 1/20th of the time for it to
do it in real time.

Well then, your system is even slower than I thought as I
have an 18 month old system that can, does do it, certainly
a new one can. If you're talking about only lower
resolution like 320 x 240, that P3 933(?) that you dismissed
might even be able to do it, providing it had SSE optimized
software/encoder.

 

[Donald McTrevor]

Well then, your system is even slower than I thought as I
have an 18 month old system that can, does do it, certainly
a new one can. If you're talking about only lower
resolution like 320 x 240, that P3 933(?) that you dismissed
might even be able to do it, providing it had SSE optimized
software/encoder.

Mine will play some others it won't play, some files seem to need
a collossal amount of processing.
Anyway I have a program to convert them to mpeg, only problem
is takes an age to convert, but I can do them as a batch job is I like.
I can't see the need for the format myself it uses to much CPU and
I think it would slow down a fairly modern system, especially if you
have other programs running.
Also its runs even slow in windows media player, which I no longer use
(cos its s***).

I tend to run my PC in just 256 colours now (cant tell the difference
most of the time) and it make a big difference. Switching to this
mode from high colour, whilst playing poker showed a drop from
about 90% CPU to 25%, which is like haveing a PC 3-4 times faster.

I was going to get my Athlon64 but unfortunately they seem to have
stopped doing the model I wanted and replaced it with a lot more
expenive models, however I might be better off with a Pentium anyway,
judging by the performance of the K6-2. A lot of benchmarks don't give
a true impression of general performance

 

[kony]

Mine will play some others it won't play, some files seem to need
a collossal amount of processing.
Anyway I have a program to convert them to mpeg, only problem
is takes an age to convert, but I can do them as a batch job is I like.
I can't see the need for the format myself it uses to much CPU and
I think it would slow down a fairly modern system, especially if you
have other programs running.
Also its runs even slow in windows media player, which I no longer use
(cos its s***).

Hardly. You simply need a faster system. The benefit of
the codecs that use more CPU time is either smaller
filesize, higher quality, or both. Modern systems have no
problem playing back any resolution your old box can, with
the more moden codecs AND doing other things simultaneously.

I tend to run my PC in just 256 colours now (cant tell the difference
most of the time) and it make a big difference. Switching to this
mode from high colour, whilst playing poker showed a drop from
about 90% CPU to 25%, which is like haveing a PC 3-4 times faster.

I was going to get my Athlon64 but unfortunately they seem to have
stopped doing the model I wanted and replaced it with a lot more
expenive models, however I might be better off with a Pentium anyway,
judging by the performance of the K6-2. A lot of benchmarks don't give
a true impression of general performance

Frankly the performance gain from ANY modern system is so
significant that being picky about exactly what it is, is
counter-productive.