Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 18:44:21 -0800 (PST) From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Memory ponderance Message-ID: <9601310244.AA00374@tera.com> In-Reply-To: <199601302035.AA04371@Sysiphos> from "Stefan Esser" at Jan 30, 96 09:35:53 pm
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According to Stefan Esser: > > > But it is very interesting to see how much > useful work can be done with such a system. > Pentiums are only good for playing 3D games, > what else needs that much CPU power :-) > > } cost of an AMD 5x86 ? > > I've paid some $107 (*1.45DM/$ * 1.15 VAT). > > The Cyrix 5x86-100 seems to be sold for the > same price, but I've heard it is no faster > in the SP3G, since it needs special chip set > support. (I could buy the AMD in a local > shop, and I'm a little conservative and it > seemed a smaller step than the Cyrix :) > > The Cyrix got a branch target cache and other > "Pentium class" features. It is said to beat > a P100 (with asynch. cache), though I really > doubt it, given the limited memory performance > (4 byte vs. 8 byte memory interface of the 486 > resp. Pentium.). > If I can digress from the original topic//Subject, I'd like to ask some of you hardware-savvy types: What is the fastest CPU that I can run with my 16MB of old, slow (80ns) DRAM? Can I use my old memory with something like a Dx4-120MHz 486?? or whatever it's called? I'm sure that my 90MHz P5 came with much faster RAM. If possible, I'd like to use my old memory when I upgrade my older system. Thanks for any insight.... gary kline
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