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To: Joe NYC who wrote (24077)	2/25/1998 1:27:00 AM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (2) of 33344

Jozef & Scumbria, we seem to agree. If you look closely as the 90MHz benchmarks you will see that the speed of a processor does not improve linearly with the bus speed. With a special MB, heavy-duty heatsink and hand-selected memory -- what you can squeeze out of a CPU is, at best, about what you would expect from the next higher clock speed of the same CPU. If it took years before chip makers increased MHz offerings, the bus/AGP race might make some sense. But with everyone readying their 0.25u offerings at ever-increasing native speeds and 0.18u arriving soon enough, the idea of trading cost and reliability for faster bus speeds makes little sense to me. Gimme a GHz CPU running on a good-ol' PCI MB with a 3D board plus gobs and gobs of cheap RAM. They might even have to rewrite Quake ... to slow it down. Craig PS If any of us are posting here a decade from now, there may well be a GHz GXm and a 2GHz Intel Pentium V. When those chips sell for <$100, will we really care about a few extra Winstones? My advice is to out your money into your monitor and speakers ... then enjoy the ride.

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