Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 21:03:22 +0000 From: Niall Smart <rotel@indigo.ie> To: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com>, Niall Smart <rotel@indigo.ie> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPro vs PII Message-ID: <199806292003.VAA02803@indigo.ie> In-Reply-To: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> "Re: PPro vs PII" (Jun 29, 12:34pm)
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On Jun 29, 12:34pm, Atipa wrote: } Subject: Re: PPro vs PII > > > And how is the DRAM access faster if both the P2 and PPro use a 66Mhz > > system bus? > > The P2's can use a 440BX chipset, which supports 100MHz Sync DRAM (7ns), > while the best production Pro chipset is the 440NX (Natoma), which > supports only 66MHz EDO (async) DRAM at 60ns. EDO is 200MB/sec, while > 100MHz SDRAM is over 500MB/sec. Yes, but benchmarks at tomshardware.com have already established that the 100Mhz memory bus offers little improvement over the 66Mhz bus on a PII. Niall -- Niall Smart. PGP: finger njs3@motmot.doc.ic.ac.uk FreeBSD: Turning PC's into Workstations: www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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