In article <pan.2004.05.20.07.10.03.538417@bestweb.net>,
dan <dcasey@bestweb.net> wrote:
>
>I am looking to get a sun but I am a newbie when it comes to suns
>architecture. I am currently looking at a Ultra 5 Workstation 360MHz.
>
>Coming from an intel world, I see the 360MHz and laugh. Is there a general
>rule of thumb I can use to tell what the equivalent would be in a intel?

That's a tough question to answer; it really depends on what you're
going to do with it. As others have pointed out, the Ultra 5 is a
seven-year-old machine, so keep that in mind. The stock configuration
includes a pretty low-end IDE drive; you'd want to replace that or
(better yet) drop in a SCSI controller and drive.

If you're looking for the broadest possible range of processors
benchmarked (apart from Byte Magazine's monumental benchmark effort in
1983), a good starting place is http://www.specbench.org/benchmarks.html

They list a 333MHz Ultra 10 (same board in a tower case) as CINT2000 133,
CFP2000 126. By comparison, a 750MHz Pentium III is listed at 325/219,
and a 3.4GHz Pentium 4 is listed at 1666/1546.

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