Ran an old DOS program recently...

[OuTpaTienT]

I booted to DOS and ran some of my old DOS diagnogstic programs just to see how they reacted to the new Athlon system.

One of them gave me a good chuckle. A program called CACHECHK.EXE, used to benchmark then system cache, returned these results to me:

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This machine seems to have both L1 and L2 cache. [reading]
L1 cache is 32KB--1262.1 MB/s 0.8 ns/byte (293%) (107%) 1.9 clks
L2 cache is 512KB--1176.4 MB/s 0.9 ns/byte (273%) (100%) 2.0 clks

Note: Due to the extreme speed of this CPU, the determination of
the L1/L2 breakpoint may not be accurate!
Please send me your CPU for (Heh-Heh) "evaluation".

Main memory speed -- 429.8 MB/s 2.4 ns/byte (100%) [reading] 5.6 clks
Effective RAM access time (read ) is 19ns (a RAM bank is 8 bytes wide).
Effective RAM access time (write) is 25ns (a RAM bank is 8 bytes wide).
"AuthenticAMD" Pentium Pro Clocked at 602.0 MHz (??!!). Cache ENABLED.
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[BFlurie]

Actually, tho old, that's still a good program -- it'll sniff out marginal memory errors in your L1 & L2. Yea, send him your CPU for "evaluation". hehe

[alpha]

The reason it says AuthenticAMD Pentium Pro is 'cos it recognises the core class as Pentium Pro (P6ish type) but the vendor ID is AuthenticAMD.