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Re: [tlug] Is Prime PC a good enough place to buy a PC



Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

I'll admit that there's a perceptible difference between a 450MHz P2
and a 2.4GHz Athlon, but the Athlon box also has 1GB RAM where the P2
has 256MB, and a 133MHz disk controller where the P2 has a 33MHz
legacy bus.  (I don't have the controller cache size offhand, but that
matters a lot, too.)

This is OT, but I'm curious about a hardware question that I've been wondering about. I have a P-III 450MHz, and I was wondering what the highest clock speed of the P-II's was. Was it 450, 500, or...? The last 486 was 100MHz I think, and the first Pentium-I was 90MHz (I think). Was there a similar overlap with P-II's and P-III's? Incidentally, I noticed a sharp increase in usable performance when going from a P-II 350 to a P-III 450, much more than the 100MHz should have generated. According to a friend of mine (I haven't properly researched it), the design of the P-III does a much better job of managing memory than the P-II?.

Lyle



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