From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 16 13:26:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA01187 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 13:26:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA01176 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 13:26:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA17795; Thu, 16 May 1996 13:22:47 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605162022.NAA17795@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: EDO & Memory latency To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 13:22:47 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Narvi" at May 16, 96 10:05:43 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > PCI can't run faster than 33 -- on a 75, that means 25. > > I feel I can't argue against this - though why aren't they running it > at some other speed than 1/2 of external and not 33/50 of it? I hate > Pentium 75-s which lose to 486DX-80s in one of the components of graphics > winmark... (everything else was exactly the same) :-( Use P100's (actualy P99's) and run the full 33, and you won't be unhappy. Since Intel started dumping Pentiums at 1/2 price, can you even get 486's any more except buying out distressed warehouse inventory? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.