From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 16 14:41:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA07226 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 14:41:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Sisyphos (Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA07221 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 14:41:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by Sisyphos id AA29703 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Thu, 16 May 1996 23:33:35 +0200 Message-Id: <199605162133.AA29703@Sisyphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 23:33:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: Warner Losh "Re: EDO & Memory latency" (May 16, 12:57) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: Warner Losh Subject: Re: EDO & Memory latency Cc: "Serge A. Babkin" , hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ? (The P5 is slightly faster on FP, but slower overall ...) Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se