🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 09 Nov 1997 18:48:31 -0500, "Leonard F. Agius"
<"nospamlfagius"@ noapamDHOL.com> wrote:

>How fast is the AMD K-6?  MY K-6 233 did well on the Winbench 97 test:
>
>CPUMark16	467 
>CPUmark32	574 
>
>I ran Wintune 97 too:
>
>Dhrystone 466 MIPS
>Whetstone 143 MLFOPS
>
>I've got no complaints. I think the K-6 is a great chip.
>
>
>Zimbalt wrote:
>> 
>> espomen@erols.com wrote:
>> >
>> > Darrin wrote:
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, 03 Nov 1997 22:29:51 -0800, SH <drhuang@2xtreme.net> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > >K5 133 is as fast as a p133! It blows away a p75. What is wrong with you
>> > > >people? You think anything that says PENTIUM is automatically faster then
>> > > >anything else? Intel has ALOT of chinks in their armor that are going to be
>> > > >exposed very soon by AMD.
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > he wasn't talking about a K5, he was talking about the 5x86.
>> > >
>> > > Darrin's Vegas News and Links
>> > > http://www.angelfire.com/nj/kitaro
>> >
>> > Yes, I meant the 5x86... I know it's just a souped up 486; it goes in a
>> > 486 motherboard! I also just noticed that it says "K5-75" on the chip,
>> > so I guess my comment was irrelevant... oh well... :-)
>> >
>> > John
>> If you know/knew that the AMD 5x86 is really an advanced 486, why troll
>> like this in the first place? For accuracy, its the fastest 486 ever
>> made...133MHz. That its overall performance equals only a P75 says a lot
>> about how fast PC CPU technology advances...although the
>> speed-advance-increments seem to be getting smaller and smaller as time
>> goes by.
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Would you all PLEASE stop praising the damn K6 so much?!
I say this because, well, er, aw hell -- mine is on order and I don't
have it yet...<sniff> :)
My Shuttle HOT-603 needs some company...:(

Kevin Miller

"In Gus We Trust"

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