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- From: tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett)
- Subject: Re: Recommendations on a 486 DX-50 vs DX2-66
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.173851.3784@tandon.com>
- Organization: Tandon Corporation, Moorpark, CA
- References: <1992Aug11.174939.1280@news.mentorg.com> <exuptr.283.713566663@exu.ericsson.se> <1992Aug12.063021.17161@bradley.bradley.edu>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:38:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug12.063021.17161@bradley.bradley.edu> guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan) writes:
-
- > I've heard this before, but it seems to me that with a localbus
- >system, getting a 50Mhz machine will benefit you quite a bit because
- >everything on the localbus will talk to the cpu 24% faster.
-
- You've got it a little backwards... the 50MHz systems usually
- operate using a 2x clock of 50MHz for the system AND for the
- CPU, but the 33MHz systems use a 66MHz 2x clock for the system
- and half of that for the CPU (this is because no one in their
- right mind would drag 100MHz all over the system board). What
- this means is that for the 50MHz system, the local bus VGA and
- memory is running at the same rate as a 25MHz system.
- Therefore, the 33MHz system *might* be faster.
-
- The reason for the *might* is that 50MHz is perfect for 0ws
- page hits to main memory with 80ns DRAMs. With 66MHz, an
- extra waitstate might have to be added if faster DRAMs are not
- used, thus lowering the main memory throughput. Knowledgable
- consumers should ask the dealer for the system's main memory
- throughput (from various benchmarks like Byte and PC Labs).
-
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