Re: R10000-150mHz_vs_R12000-300mHz...(?)

From: Atro Tossavainen (Atro.Tossavainen+news_at_helsinki.finland.invalid)
Date: 03/08/05

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    arie van schutterhoef <arsche@xs4all.nl> writes:

    >> Depends on the price, I suppose.
    >
    > -90 euro's (which is affordable, I guess...)

    If you can get the CPU upgrade from 150 MHz R10k to 300 MHz R12k for
    90 euros, I would already have done it.

    >> What exactly are you doing?
    >
    > -Running PD and doing FFT's for realtime audio performances.

    My gut instinct is that realtime FFT will certainly benefit from the
    increased CPU power. I'm not sure about Pd, I'm totally unfamiliar
    with that application.

    The overall system design differences between the O2 and the Octane
    may mean that you won't be able to get quite as much out of your O2
    as Olaf does on his Octane with an identical CPU. What kind of
    results are you getting now (if you do the same test that Olaf did)?

    > I wa quite surprised about the outcome.

    Hey, all SGI aficionados know it's not the MHz that counts. :-)

    I should probably try compiling Pd and its friends with the MIPSpro
    compilers rather than gcc which is what Olaf used to see if we can't
    get even more oomph out of it :-) 

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