From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 18 06:31:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA01159 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 May 1996 06:31:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Sisyphos (Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA01152 for ; Sat, 18 May 1996 06:31:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by Sisyphos id AA16056 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for hackers@freebsd.org); Sat, 18 May 1996 15:30:24 +0200 Message-Id: <199605181330.AA16056@Sisyphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 15:30:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: Warner Losh "Re: EDO & Memory latency" (May 16, 16:46) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: Warner Losh Subject: Re: EDO & Memory latency Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On May 16, 16:46, Warner Losh wrote: } Subject: Re: EDO & Memory latency } : It is, but why don't you get } : yourself an AMD 5x86 instead, } : which performs better than the } : P5-83 and is a lot cheaper ? } } What is the cost and will it plug into my oldish 33MHz 486DX } motherboard? I paid 115DM a few weeks ago, and have seen them offered for 109DM in recent mail order price lists. That translates to about $65+VAT. If your motherboard does not offer a 3.3V supply to the CPU socket, you'll need a voltage regulator socket, which may add some $20. There are complete upgarde modules sold by Kingston and some other companies (see the AMD web page for pointers). I like my 5x86 a lot. It made my old ASUS SP3G compile the world nearly as fast as others reported for a P133 (within some 10% of real time :). Depending on your memory subsystem and cache, you may see some 10% less or a few percent more speed. If you have a VLB board and get the ADZ version (which needs neither fan nor cooler at 133MHz) you can overclock it to 160MHz (4x40MHz) and have a system that beats most P90 :) (But be sure to have the CPU well cooled in that case!) Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se