Author: Mark Young
Date: 14:16:29 03/18/98
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On March 18, 1998 at 13:04:55, Komputer Korner wrote: >Why so little? if the bus speed is 50% faster everthing regarding >input/output should be 50% faster. > >On March 17, 1998 at 15:13:22, Mark Young wrote: > >>On March 17, 1998 at 14:42:30, Bela Andrew Evans wrote: >> >>>I'm considering getting a new computer later this year, and I'm >>>wondering what others think about the new 100 mhz bus motherboards >>>coupled with the 300 to 400 mhz PII or K6-3D chips coming out in the >>>next few quarters. >>> >>>Will the speed increases for chess programs be dramatic? Any one >>>care to estimate how fast a 400 mhz PII or 350 mhz K6-3D running on >>>a 100 mhz motherboard would be compared to the ssdf standard >>>200 mhz pentium mmx? >>> >>>Should we start drooling yet? :) >>> >>>Bela >> >> >>Test have shown only a 0 to 5% increase in speed for the 100 mhz bus. So >>untill the chips can be tested it will be hard to say. If the K6 350 >>runs Rebel as well as the K6 233 then it will be well over 2X faster >>then a 200 mhz pentium mmx for that program. Thats right but you must remember were most of the work is being done, and that is the CPU. The 100 mhz bus will not speed up the chip. The more a program uses memory, video, ect. the more advantage it will get from the faster bus. You can see the test results at TOM'S HARDWARE GUIDE. Search for it at yahoo or altavista. The tests were done on a P II chip. The K6 may get a little more out of the faster bus since its cache is tied to the bus speed. The P II cache is not bound by the bus speed, and runs at 1/2 the mhz speed of the chip.
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