Re: AES performance

[Olivier Cherrier <oc@karedas.cediti.be>]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:09:27PM -0700, deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org wrote:
> >     One question that has been nagging in the back of my mind is, what 
> > is the quality of the new C3 like, in general?
> 
> The machines we have run perfectly.  At the same clock, a C3 is not
> quite the same performance as something else, but then again, half of
> the machines I am using don't have cpu fans.
 
Yes, VIA C3 motherboards are very cool. I've just got mine, a M-10000 II.
This one has a CPU-fan and it is pretty noisy :-(  I have to replace it.

> > The numbers you guys 
> > have been getting from the C3 for AES are incredible, but historically 
> > the C3 has had some reliability problems.  You guys seem to have been 
> > dealing with it a lot lately, so do you (or anyone else on the team) 
> > have any words about the overall quality of the new C3?
> 
> I've never seen one of them crash.

See PR 3665.
I noted that BIOS parameters seem to be very critical for the OS
stability. Loading "safest parameters" in the BIOS menu resolved 
stability problems I had but not this one.

Greetings

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