Re: Performances of 486DX-33 and 386DX-40

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From: Jens Kr. Kirkeb
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 12:15

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In article <1992Nov2.043403.7816@wam.umd.edu> qian@wam.umd.edu (Yong Qian) writes:

>I bought a 486DX-33 about 2 months ago with 215MB hard disk and 8MB RAM. I
>bought a 386DX-40 with 105MB HD 4M RAM for my wife yesterday. Both use 
>motherboards made in Taiwan. I ran Norton 4.5 on them. 486 gives 51 while
>386 gives 48.5. Why the difference is so small? I thought 486-33 should be
>much faster than the 386-40, as 486 has 8K internal cache built in. Besides,
>the 486-33 also has 256K external cache, while 386-40 only has 64K.

You have a problem with your 486. A 33Mhz 486 should yield approx. 72
on the Norton SI. My 486SX-40Mhz (Yes, it is a 'trimmed' 25Mhz) gives
86.4. Check in your BIOS. Maybe one of the caches is disabled ?

Jens Kr. Kirkeb

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