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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Marco Polo who wrote (60051)6/1/1999 2:13:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) of 1571337
 
Benjamin,

Actually... I tested myself once, a Pentium 200 w/60 MHz bus speed is slower on Winstone than a Pentium 166 w/83 MHz bus.

Back in Pentium days, the L2 cache was located across the system bus from the CPU. At that time bus speed was significant. However, in the case of PIII and K7, the L2 caches are located between the CPU and the system bus- so the system bus speed does not affect the average memory latency very much any more.

Bus speed is no longer an issue for most desktop applications. It is still very important for servers.

Scumbria
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