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From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline)
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Subject: Memory ponderance
To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 18:44:21 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199601302035.AA04371@Sysiphos> from "Stefan Esser" at Jan 30, 96 09:35:53 pm
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According to Stefan Esser:
> 
> 
> But it is very interesting to see how much 
> useful work can be done with such a system.
> Pentiums are only good for playing 3D games, 
> what else needs that much CPU power :-)
> 
> } 	cost of an AMD 5x86 ?
> 
> I've paid some $107 (*1.45DM/$ * 1.15 VAT).
> 
> The Cyrix 5x86-100 seems to be sold for the
> same price, but I've heard it is no faster
> in the SP3G, since it needs special chip set
> support. (I could buy the AMD in a local
> shop, and I'm a little conservative and it
> seemed a smaller step than the Cyrix :)
> 
> The Cyrix got a branch target cache and other 
> "Pentium class" features. It is said to beat 
> a P100 (with asynch. cache), though I really 
> doubt it, given the limited memory performance 
> (4 byte vs. 8 byte memory interface of the 486 
> resp. Pentium.).
> 


	If I can digress from the original topic//Subject,
	I'd like to ask some of you hardware-savvy types:

	What is the fastest CPU that I can run with my
	16MB of old, slow (80ns) DRAM?  Can I use my old
	memory with something like a Dx4-120MHz 486??
	or whatever it's called?  I'm sure that my 90MHz
	P5  came with much faster RAM.  If possible, I'd
	like to use my old memory when I upgrade my older
	system. 

	Thanks for any insight....

	gary kline