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Code Jockey () wrote:
: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) writes:

: > True, but the price of the CPU and motherboard is a pretty small
: > part of total system cost, unless you want a server for your PC. And
: > prices for the brand name stuff are in free fall, so a short wait
: > will usually get you the performance level you couldn't afford. if
: > you want the best there is, that will never be cheap.

: The 6x86 (P166+) is runs at 133 mhz in Triton based pentium motherboards.
: Many of these motherboards (including my Tyan Titan3) can go to 200 mhz.
: Since the 6x86 can process more instructions per clock cycle than
: the pentium. 

: Clock for clock cycle the 6x86 trounces the pentium. That is compare 
: oranges to oranges, a 133 mhz 6x86 to a 133 mhz pentium. The 686 beats
: the pentium in integer and floating point performance.

not floating point.  Apparently Pentium stil has the more advanced floating
point unit, and anything FPU intensive, the plain old P5@133 will still outrun
M1@133.  

: If Cyrix makes a 200 mhz 6x86, I have a chance for higher performance
: without spending any money on a new motherboard than I ever will with
: an Intel 200 mhz pentium (wow a P240+ :). That is if Cyrix makes one....

It's okay, Intel has the P55C coming out by the end of the year, with
the new MMX instructions, as well as larger Icache and Dcache, so the
performance per Mhz will improve as well.