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486DX versus 486DX2

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From: Andre Koopal
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:56
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My brother wants to buy a new computer. He wants to run 'heavy' software
as big jobs in Mathematica and a numerical evaluation program. This kind
of jobs are very calculate sensitive. But they also work with large 
matrices so they have to do lots of memoryaccess. (The arrays are larger
than the cache).

Now he is wondering, what wil run faster for him, a 486 DX-50 MhZ who can
faster access memory (on 50 MhZ) or a 486 DX2-66 MhZ whose processor runs
faster, but access to memory is at 33 MhZ. The prices doesn't differ mutch,
at least here in holland, so he is just wondering.

Thanks in Advance,

Andre

I will post a summery if there is enough e-mail reply.

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