Red Flag announces an Intel-compiled distribution

Red Flag announces an Intel-compiled distribution

"I wonder how often this 10-15% speed increase would show up in real life situations. e.g. how often does one encode three MPEG2.... "

Running the kernel at 100% for hours and hours I often do while using dvd::rip/transcode or running the game AA.

Right, many desktop users have no need for a processor over 1GHz for their e-mail, web sufing and word-processing, but a great many are pushing the hardware to its limits, and upgrade often. A 15% increase in processor GHz can more than double the CPU-price, so its not insignificant. [check a P4 or Athlon64 at 3GHz and price out the 15% increase].

A 15% increase in frame-rate in AA and Transcode translates into a better game experience and quicker production times in transcode [while the machine is useless for anything else]. The game AA is more CPU than GPU bounded. Turning off all detail in textures and reducing screen rez does exactly nothing to FPS. [Running the K7 kernel helps increase the minimum frame-rate, perhaps due to 3D-Now and similar optimisations].

A faster compiled solution for these applications would be most welcome.