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Date:      Fri, 17 May 1996 10:10:53 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser)
Cc:        imp@village.org, babkin@hq.icb.chel.su, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: EDO & Memory latency
Message-ID:  <199605170040.KAA07575@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199605162133.AA29703@Sisyphos> from "Stefan Esser" at May 16, 96 11:33:34 pm

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Stefan Esser stands accused of saying:
> 
> On May 16, 12:57, Warner Losh wrote:
> } Subject: Re: EDO & Memory latency
> } This reminds me of a question that I've wanted to ask for a while.
> } Does anybody know where I can find a good writeup on the various
> } Pentium chip speeds and how they relate to bus speeds?
> } 
> } I'm most interested in the P5-83 which is an upgrade to my dx2-66.  It
> } sounds as if it is running at 2.5x my bus speed, which is odd to say
> } the least.
> 
> It is, but why don't you get 
> yourself an AMD 5x86 instead,
> which performs better than the
> P5-83 and is a lot cheaper ?

Note also that many motherboards don't correctly support the P5-83, as I
learnt to my significant annoyance.  What was going to be a cheap-ish
upgrade became total hell.

$600 later I'm wishing I'd been able to get one of the AMD parts.

>  Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen		Tel:	+49 221 4706021

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