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Subject: Re: How fast will new MB and CPU combos be?

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 10:04:55 03/18/98

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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.



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