Re: tlug: Intel Pentium-II

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Totoro wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > Just timed an app compile, as a contest between a K6-200 (with 12 people
> > logged in and running pine and/or emacs) and a P2-300 running nothing else
> > except X and a couple Xterms.  Pretty much identical compile times.  If
> > anything the K6 linked the binary faster.
> 
> I poked around at Cyberian this afternoon. They mention that the Intel
> P2/MMX has a bus speed of 66MHz. As my older P5's are the same, I guess
> Andy hasn't figured out how to really make the machine any faster, so
> they just make higher clocks and try to wow everyone with nothing.
> 
> Cyrix, OTOH, has what Cyberian lists as 75/188MHz bus speed. Looks like
> the secondary clocking that Apple used to do. Don't know how well it
> actually speeds things up, though.

Actually, the P2/MMX has a 66MHz PCI bus and a 166MHz AGP bus.  I don't
see how a Cyrix chip could have a faster bus if it still uses PCI and
wants to be PCI standard compliant..

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