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From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: Upgrade - CPU, clock?
To: alan@trickler.uu.silcom.com (Alan D. Trombla)
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 20:28:35 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199512180619.WAA28895@trickler.uu.silcom.com> from "Alan D. Trombla" at Dec 17, 95 10:19:55 pm
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> 
> 
> OK,
> Much thanks to everyone that offered help with this.  The consensus
> seems to be that a processor upgrade to an Intel 486DX4/100 is the
> best that I can do with this motherboard.   I have just one more
> question: What do people think about the Pentium 83MHz processor?
> This seems to run about $100 more than the DX4; is it worth it?
> (FYI: I am concerned mostly with FP performance; my IO/VM system
> is plenty fast for my purposes.)
> 
i think for fp perforamce the pentium might be the better choice (my
experience - a 90 mhz pentium is faster than a 100 mhz 486 using fp
and around equal for compiling - ok - a bit faster :-)

t
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