Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 22:32:26 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EDO & Memory latency Message-ID: <199605170532.WAA15732@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 16 May 96 13:22:47 -0700. <199605162022.NAA17795@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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>> > PCI can't run faster than 33 -- on a 75, that means 25.
>> I feel I can't argue against this - though why aren't they running it
>> at some other speed than 1/2 of external and not 33/50 of it? I hate
>> Pentium 75-s which lose to 486DX-80s in one of the components of graphics
>> winmark... (everything else was exactly the same) :-(
>Use P100's (actualy P99's) and run the full 33, and you won't be
>unhappy.
Actually, probably P100's with the bus running 33.3... MHz. If
they're not going 33.3... how do they get 133, 166 (really 167,
but...) and 200?
>Since Intel started dumping Pentiums at 1/2 price, can you even get
>486's any more except buying out distressed warehouse inventory?
I'm sure AMD and/or Cyrix would be happy to sell you one. Though how
distressed they might be...
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