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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Cyrix Math Coprocessors
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.185447.28106@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 18:54:47 GMT
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- In article <cee1.711941917@Isis.MsState.Edu>, cee1@ra.msstate.edu (Charles Evans) writes:
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- | >>This guy said $125, and that was retail, so it must be better than that on
- | >>the mail-order market.
- | >>
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- ELKCO (1-800-24ELKCO) has the 33 for $85, the 40 for $108. I have done
- business with them both personally and for the company, and we have
- always been satisfied. You can probably save about 4-6% by shopping
- around even over these prices, but I don't know anyone cheaper I'd use
- again.
-
- | >is cyrix the best choice? i've had some compatibility problems with weitek
- | >and autocad, but was told itt is the next best thing next to intel.
-
- I think if you benchmark they are a bit better than Intel. Not a lot
- on most things, but a bit. By my benchmarks the transcendental
- functions are a lot faster in some cases, like 3-4x, but in "real
- programs" there's only a tiny difference.
-
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise rational people, able to
- understand calculus, compound interest, and the income tax form, can
- continue to believe that poker is a game of chance.
-