On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, James wrote:
Yeah, I love AMD, too. I have an Aopen MB with 1 meg of cache as well, it screems even windoze! that was quite a shock for me ;)
At work someone ordered a cyrix 233 mII for use in my work computer. He said something about it being like a p2. When I got it I felt let down. It looked more like a pentium then a p2. Then I plugged it in. It could run mathcad docs over twice as quickly as the pentium mmx that I was running (and they both were at the same clock speed.) I liked it so much I got cyrix chips to use at home. The MII can't push flops as fast as a k6 or a celery but boy does it fly when it is doing integer calculations! In fact I believe it can do integer calculations faster than any chip out there (for the same clock speed.) And when you compile support for the 686 into the kernel, the speed really picks up! To bad cyrix is not doing so well lately. Unless cyrix can pull things out (they were just bought out by another company,) my next chip is going to be a k7 -- and I am not getting an intel chip ever again either! What is the main difference between a Pent pro, p2, p3 and p2-p3 celeron? Answer: several hundred dollars! I notice cyrix chips are at bargin basement prices right now. If you need a chip I suggest giving one a try! Later, Matt.