Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 09:46:42 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>, Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>, smp@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GigaByte GA-586DX-512 Motherboard Message-ID: <199611121746.JAA06447@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 12 Nov 96 12:26:01 %2B0100. <Pine.BSF.3.95.961112121734.1744C-100000@klemm.gtn.com>
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>Many people say, that it's better to choose a
> - 200 MHz CPU instead of a 180 MHz CPU
> - 166 MHz CPU instead of a 150 MHz CPU
> - 133 MHz CPU instead of a 150 MHz CPU
These are OK, although I'd put "166 MHz CPU instead of a 180"...
> - 100 MHz CPU instead of a 120 MHz CPU
No, in my experience, a 120 is actually faster than a 100 for
everything I've benchmarked. The 120 is 20% faster than a 100, but
the advantage is much smaller than that. The difference is small
enough that I can say that a 133 will probably be faster than a 150 in
most cases, and a 166 will definitely be faster than a 180, in almost
every case.
Note also that these are specifically Pentiums. Pentium Pros and/or
Cyrix 6x86s might have totally different characteristics (but I would
expect them to roughly follow the same trend).
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