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Technology Stocks : CYRIX / NSM -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Craig Freeman who wrote (30319)	11/20/1998 3:14:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Craig, 1MB of L2 cache is about the all you see on Socket 7 mobos. Why? When you go above 1MB, the performance improvement (in single processor systems) tails off very quickly. Caches are only effective for reuse of code and data. The first time a code or data block is loaded, it will miss in the cache. Similarly, context switches incur a large percentage of cache misses. Even with an infinite sized cache, a certain fixed percentage of memory accesses would miss in the cache. As clock speeds increase to 1GHz and above, high performance systems will have to use more sophisticated solutions than traditional sdram or rdram. There are other types memories available, i.e. edram, sram, etc. which computer architects will have to take advantage of. Scumbria

To: Craig Freeman who wrote (30319)	11/20/1998 11:07:00 AM
From: John Edwards	Respond to of 33344

To Craig and others: need some recommendations for upgrading m/b and cpu's to PII 350 level. Best price from a local shop is for AMD K6-2 350's ($225 CDN) on an ASUS P5A m/b ($165 CDN) Total is about $254 US. Local shops don't seem to have a Cyrix option. What is the best Cyrix option? I would prefer to support NSM as a shareholder. Also the 333 mhz chip is $40 cheaper than the $350. I can't imagine I could tell the difference, but I seem to remember there is something quirky about the 333 chip. Thanks to all in advance John Also any comments about when this Techstock sort of bull market will end? Except for my ATI Tech shares the rest of my portfolio is now ahead of its previous high.