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To: Elmer who wrote (31958)4/16/1998 10:34:00 AM
From: Ali Chen  Respond to of 1578068
 
Elmer, <Have you seen any benchmarks that would settle our dispute about 66 vrs 100mhz busses?>

There is no question. Nothing new yet, only old stuff:

anandtech.com

"As you can tell by the above comparison,
the benchmarks at 100 x 3.0 are fairly average
compared to most LX boards running at 66 x 4.5,
the 100MHz bus speed itself is a bit of a letdown
for Pentium II owners"

Tom Pabst ("uberclockmeister"):
sysdoc.pair.com
100x3 = 300 -> 21.9
66x4.5= 300 -> 21.4
"The test system with only 32 MB RAM is showing only
a small performance gain in office applications by the
100 MHz system bus."



To: Elmer who wrote (31958)4/16/1998 10:38:00 AM
From: Ali Chen  Respond to of 1578068
 
<Yes, but Intel said they had stopped wafer starts for the Pentium...
It's near the end of the line for Intel and Socket7.>
How about a different interpretation: all 50% of the PC
market is left open for AMD, Cyrix, and IDT?

Ali