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- From: pdtaylor@primenet.com (Daniel L. Taylor)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Upgrade my Amiga or buy a Pentium?
- Date: 10 Mar 1996 19:00:03 -0700
- Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet
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- References: <935.6628T1263T206@eastcoast.co.za> <4h6p0u$cs4@leporello.cs.unibo.it> <oj64ts4tz3u.fsf@hpsrk.fc.hp.com> <4hmcor$9s8@news.icon.net> <Do2L6K.EzH@eskimo.com>
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- steveth@eskimo.com (Steve Thompson) writes:
-
- >In article <4hmcor$9s8@news.icon.net>, pwilso39@mail.icon.net says...
- >>
- >>Let me put one thing to rest. NO matter how fast a Pentium claims to be
- >>its bus speed is still only 32Mhz. Keep your Amiga. You will be glad that
- >>you did!
- >>
-
- >Incorrect about the bus speeds. They are as follows:
-
- >Processor Speed Bus Speed
-
- >75 50 Mhz
- >60, 90, 120, 150 60 Mhz
- >66, 100, 133, 166 66 Mhz
-
- I think what the earlier poster was try to say is that a VESA or early
- PCI machine has the stated bus speed limitation when accessing anything
- but level-2 cache. The available bus speed on the processor is not
- the same as the "system" bus speed. So, in a 33 MHz PCI system all of
- the listed Pentiums have an effective bus speed of 33 MHz. In reality,
- since "Intel"-ish machine seem to all use 70 ns RAM as main memory
- (I have not had much success finding 40 ns SIMMs), and allowing for
- "burst" access and precharge times of 30 ns and 100 ns, respectively,
- 4 bus cycles take 260 ns, roughly 16 MHz bus speed. Even a teraHz
- Alpha can't run that memory any faster. That's why only tiny integer
- benchmarks, which live in the level-1 (internal) cache, and floating
- point ops, which take many clock cycles to perform, show much improvement
- with increasing clock speed. Disk reads, video memory accesses, etc.
- are limited by the system bus.
-
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