Re: AMD K6-2 or Celeron?

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From: Tom Bird
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 00:00

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In article <955142958snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>, Lawrence Kirby
<fred@genesis.demon.co.uk> writes

>The K6's are lumbered with the Socket 7 bus which is slow. Memory
>rates can be well under half that of a Socket 370/Slot 1 system even
>with the same meory chips. That's why SS7 motherboards need L2/L3 cache.

My K6-2 400 box gets around 100MB/s memory bandwidth, the BP6 gets
300MB/s (all IIRC).

'nuff said.

TB               Busby the Cat 1984 - 22.9.1999

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From: Tom Bird <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk>
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