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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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