Re: Upgrading from Pentium Pro on Tyan Tahoe II

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From: John Gibb
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 00:00

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Dennis wrote in message <793amv$a2e$1@news.inc.net>...
>If you upgrade to anything short of a PII-450 you would actually be down
>grading your system if you have a PPro-200 (socket 8) and are running NT
and
>even with a PII-450 you probably would not be able to see the slight
>difference in performance.  Don't worry about MMX the only one who gained
>from that hype is Intel.


Sorry Dennis, I 'mostly' agree. Having went from Dual PPro 200/512K to an
o/c'ed Celeron 300A at 450, the performance from Quake 2 (okay so we're
UNIPROCESSOR here) was significant enough to show around a 30-40FPS
increase.

I'd only consider the P2 333 if I got it for free...In the end you would be
better off biting the bullet either for a 'pure' 450+ or an o/c'ed
processor.

Cheers,
               John

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Subject: Re: Upgrading from Pentium Pro on Tyan Tahoe II
Date: 1999/02/01
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