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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (54404)4/24/1998 8:54:00 PM
From: BelowTheCrowd  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Here's a bit of news, in case you didn't know it:

The best thing you can do to get rid of that hourglass is to get a machine with a FAST hard drive and lots of memory.

The fact is that most sub-$1200 machines sell with no L2 cache. That was true with the last generation (where all but one of our non-PII models got no L2 cache) and it will probably be true of the next generation, no matter what processor we build in.

It's obvious to me that a Celeron machine with no L2 cache and a slow HDD is going to be a relatively sluggish performer, and is useful mostly to a non-power user. So is a K6 machine with no L2 cache and a slow HDD.

Personally, I'll put up my home-built Pentium 200 system against most of the P-MMX, PII, and K6 systems which are available at retail today from virtually all the mainstream brands. It'll blow them away due to: 128MB RAM, two <9ms HDDs and a large (250MB) partition dedicated entirely to the Windows swap file. Yeah, the processor is a bit slower. Who cares if you're waiting on disk I/O?

Unfortunatley, I couldn't easily sell that machine at Circuit City or CompUSA. There are too many others which have better sounding specs for much less than the cost of my "expensive component" homebuilt. That's a unfortuantely a reality of the mainstream consumer market, and one which Intel understands a lot better than AMD.

mg
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