It seems snappy. I opted to save $200 on the processor. Do you guys think the upgrade is worth $200? Does it really speed it up that much faster?

News from Skeezix:
Hey my friends ..

We're all hungry for our release units, and we all know everyone is dieing for more info and news, and we all know the boys are too busy to fill our demands But there are a few of us devkit lads on board now, so likely some more info will get leaked.

This is unofficial; I'm not speaking for the devs, and may make errors. I'm not intending to step on the toes of any of the very fine devs for any of the devices (disclosure, I've got dev units of all of them!). Craigs statement about saying something that is true for only 3 days being bandied about for 3 months is ever so true It is also tough to post performance numbers without people thinking its a diss to the non-topmost machine. I don't want to say that, since there are other factors (price, portability, screen preferences, add-ons, support, controls, weight, and so on.)

You might recall my past thread http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php...opic=44373&hl= comparing gp2x to GP2x Wiz. See that for some commentary on what is accurate or inaccurate for those tests (ie: optimized code on gp2 versus unoptimized code on the Wiz, including SDL versus framebuffer, meaning the Wiz numbers are artificially lower and the gp2x ones are pretty high, so the Wiz should actually perform higher in relation to the gp2x than I showed.) Defining a 'fair' benchmark is hard since everyone has a different idea (all running at their best or worst? the type of test.. be it math, graphics, bus intensive .. it is easy to have a test that hits a weakness in one but a strenght in another, and is that a fair thing (typical use) or a cheat (atypical use)? Hard questions.)

Suffice to say my number is a _SINGLE_ (yet repeatable) test; a good benchmark is comprised of many benchmark tests so you can get a good picture from many perspectives.. not just a 'throwing this out there' number.

Still, it is a pretty telling number sometimes as well!

All that said..

Given OutcaST (an emu for which many of you have seen and used for some 6+ years from me in various forms), in a emulated CPU-torture test. (ie: Atari ST sitting at the GEM desktop with a stock TOS image will be in a tight CPU grind loop.) Doesn't really hit the ST's graphic system hard or the like, but the ST wasn't really a complex machine for graphics anyway. So it tests the emulation pretty well, in a situation that makes the mu perform worse than average. (ie: If it normally woudl run 60fps for a game, it'd run this GEM situation at 40-45fps at a guess.) Its also easy to auto-boot into, so no keyboard or audio or the like making the test more situational.. its pure out emulation with the machine not even trying to play audio.

GP2x stock F100, 200MHz IIRC. Highly optimized code.

GP2x Wiz dev unit (not final hardware but pretty close); The code is on GPH slow software only SDL. (no acceleration.) 533MHz.

Pandora Mk2 (version 1.1) devboard; 500MHz. Notaz quick SDL port using framebuffer. ie: Not optimized, but I think its prolly better than the GPH version on the Wiz. (GPH stuff tends to be slower for some reason, perhaps they don't compile with optimizatoins on in the compiler, or add debugging stuff, or the mouse support is in the way, or something.)

Sony PSP original FAT version. Not optimized for multi-cpu core, not really using the separate GPU for anything in this test. (ie: alpha blendsing UIs and such are in the code, but not during this test.) Essentially the PSP is chugging along at 333MHz if memory serves.. I don't recall if I'm clocking down or not in this case .. didn't loo back at the code to see.

Latest version of Outcast fro mthe gp2x, converted crappily to SDL on the non-F100 machines.

GP2x 49fps

GP2x Wiz 70fps

Pandora dev board mk2 180fps

Sony PSP 53fps

During actual game emulation the numbers are all higher by about 20-25%, but thats out of scope for this.

It is hard to explain the pandora being so far out in front of the others; my guess is the less congested bus, the processor being a multigenerational gap (the Pandora CPU is a far far newer design than in the GP2x), and the big cache on the CPU in the pandora.

Note my comments above; the 70 versus 49 (Wiz to gp2x) may not seem so impressive in relation to the pandora, but going back to the origiunal post I was pretty impressed. The Wiz _IS_ a snappy beasty (and this is a bit of a torture test, not a typical emu gameplay test!), so it is a very exciting device.

The Pandora is freaking goddamned fast.

jeff

How does the bus size impact the speed of the processor?
Is the impact such that a 2.0 ghz new macbook with 1066 bus would be faster than a 2.4 ghz macbook with a 800 mhz bus?

any help on this would be great. thanks.

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Our evaluation of the ASUS M3A78-T motherboard sporting the new 790GX chipset is online today for your viewing pleasure. If you are an overclocker with an older Athlon 64 X2 processor, this board might be what you are looking for.

If you are about to buy a new AMD motherboard, this one showed great overclocking prowess on the front side for older Athlon X2s. Maybe we will see the same with Phenom II CPUs.

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Nokia World Event has finished, and the N97 (pdf/160 KB) was announced, but, what about Maemo? Any news about new Maemo device/s? It seems not, but…

• It seems that Ovi is the great services strategy for Nokia for next year, so I suppose that any new NSeries device will integrate these services (specially after seeing Niklas Savander keynote)
• The N97 user interface might be showing some ideas about what can we expect from new Maemo user interface
• New Maemo devices will be OMAP3 based, but it seems that N97 comes with other processor (Unconfirmed)

And some regrets after all. I’ve seen/hear a lot of time the word open in the presentations but:

• There isn’t yet a Nokia PC Suite for open operating systems
• The Nokia Ovi Maps site ask me to use a right web browser, when it should ask me to use other operating system, to download an .exe file

And this event has left a great keynote, the one from Ray Hammond, and a great quote from Anssi Vanjoki:

I want to surf the entire internet, not just some pieces of the internet

Me too, but my desktop computer is not the same that my mobile computer, so I can’t expect the same user experience in both machines, but I can expect an optimized user experience for the context I am using my computer (whatever my computer or context are). But, that’s another story…

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i,ve finally downloaded the kaly way dvd,and i have 220 gb of free unpartioned space on my hard disk and 25 gb of fat 32 partion i try to run it but it keeps restarting m y computer at the darwin screen(the black screen with the white texts where i ,m supposed to press F8 and enter ), it just keeps restaring i dont know what to do please i really need all the help i can get my computer spec's are :
AMD Phenom 9950 2.6 quad-core processor (X4-64bit) black edition
gigabyte MA790GP-DS4H
8GB of ram
gigabyte nvidia gforce9600gt 1GB ddr3 VGA card (PCI express 2)
the sound and lan are built in on the motherboard and they are realteck
waiting for you answers
B.S: i,m runing windows vista 64 ultimate on this computer:

Hello all!

So i've finally decided on a refurb MBP 'classic'.
15 inch, 2.6ghz, glossy.

BUT, i wanted to know if i should get one with the 5400rpm or 7200rpm hard drive.
The size of both isn't the issue.
I just wanna know if I really will be missing out on much.
I could use the extra money for my external firewire scratch disk for media (as there's a $300 price difference).

With that said, would the hard drive speed make a big difference when simply running day to day and pro software?

Also, what about using audio software (ie Ableton Live) and having it running several tracks, plugins, virtual instruments, etc... all at once?
(if i'm on the go, i'd prolly just use the internal HD rather than the external, but that would be rare).

Sorry if its a dumb question. I guess I may be confusing hard drive speed with processor and RAM for running programs (?)

Thanks!

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