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Date:      Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:17:22 +0200 (EET)
From:      mika ruohotie <bsdscsi@shadows.aeon.net>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can the P/I-P55T2P4 be overclocked?  In other words does it                support 75 and 83MHz bus speeds?
Message-ID:  <199701101117.NAA27406@shadows.aeon.net>
In-Reply-To: <199701091541.CAA27446@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Jan 10, 97 02:11:48 am"

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> No!  You're not paying attention 8) You want an _FX_ chipset
> motherboard, specifically for the improved CPU-memory bandwidth.  Even
> the VX with all its corners cut is faster than the HX.  Don't kid

pardon?

> yourself that the extra few MHz of PCI speed will make major
> differences to your performance, particularly if it means that
> you sacrifice CPU-memory bandwidth to get it.
> 
> Spend some time looking for the real bottlenecks in the system rather
> than trying to open paths that are already adequately wide.
> ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer        msmith@gsoft.com.au             [[

is there something not commonly known here?

since what i've heard tells that 430FX is much slower than VX and that HX
is faster than either one when running at the "top" speed...

there's relatively long memory and clock cycle stuff behind this...


mickey



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