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From: steve_tang@mindlink.bc.ca (Steve Tang)
Newsgroups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Triton vs. SiS Pentium chipsets
Date: 22 Jan 1996 01:46:41 GMT
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In article <DLGoEE.1p9@madsoft.lonestar.org>, mike@madsoft.lonestar.org (Mike) says:
:
:Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote:
:>What exactly are the differences between the Triton and SiS
:>Pentium-class chipsets?  Does the SiS have any disadvantages versus
:>the Triton?  Does the SiS demand special hardware (cache, RAM, etc.)
:>that the Triton doesn't?  Which performs better?
:
:Get the January 8th (or the following week) copy of Infoworld and
:find the comparison of five or six 133MHz Pentium systems.  All but
:one had about the same performance.  The fast one were Tritons and the
:slow one was based on SIS.   The chipset is probably not the sole
:cause of lower performance, but it is critical to good performance.

Unless the five or six P133 systems are all by the same company, this
is still not a fair comparison.

What I want to see are benchmarks from two P133 systems with exactly
the same configuration with the only difference being one using the
P55TP4XE and the other using the P55SP4.

That would be a fair comparison.

Steve Tang