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Technology Stocks : Disk Drive Sector Discussion Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frodo Baxter who wrote (2459)	2/9/1998 12:43:00 PM
From: Z Analyzer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

Looking at the PC Worldbench performance ratings, I find that Intel scores are around the following: pentium 133 Approx 180 166 Mh non-MMX: 200 166 MMX 220 200 MMX 225 PII 266 260 PII 300 270 This seems like modest performance improvements for the increases in clock sppeds as well as the generational tansitions. Would I really only see a 35% performance improvement for buying a PII 300 versus my lowly non-mmx 166 or do these tests not measure real world improvements, esp for MMX enabled software? I gueass I would also get the benefit of an Ultra ATA disk drive, but I think the difference is also included in these figures since the early models are from June and were not leading edge.