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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Subject: Re: EDO & Memory latency 
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From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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: Note also that many motherboards don't correctly support the P5-83, as I
: learnt to my significant annoyance.  What was going to be a cheap-ish
: upgrade became total hell.
: 
: $600 later I'm wishing I'd been able to get one of the AMD parts.

OK.  So I should look into the AMD chip rather than the P5-83.  My
motherboard claims to be "Pentium Overdrive Ready" so there may not be
a big problem there.  However, I purchased it a long time before the
Pentiums were even out, so maybe it doesn't do it well.

I take it then the amd chip is pin compatbile with the 486 I have and
that there will be *NO* problems in pulling one out and putting the
other in?

What kind of performance increase should I expect?  Say on a make
world and also on CPU bound things.

Warner