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From: Hinrich Eilts <eilts@iwte01.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de>
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To: David Clear <davidc@pdd.3com.com>
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> I'm very close to buying what Gateway here in the UK call a
> a "P5-90 Premium Multimedia".  This has:
> 

> 	P90 Processor
> 	16MB EDO RAM
> 	1Gb EIDE disk
> 	Quad speed CDROM
> 	17" Vivitron monitor
> 	2Mb Graphics card (ATI Mach 64 (?????))
>
c't magazine:
perfomance for Triton
no cache, standard RAM       323  ( 89%)
no cache, EDO RAM            340  ( 94%)
async cache, stdandard RAM   363  (100%)
async cache, EDO RAM         362  (100%)
PB cache, standard RAM       407  (112%)
PB cache, EDO RAM            412  (114%)

IMHO, EDO RAM is only usefull for notbooks for saving power by omitting
cache.

Hinrich