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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!pipex-sa.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.ssd.intel.com!chnews!tjehl From: tjehl@sedona.intel.com (Timothy Jehl~) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: PCI bus freq with CPU freq at (X * 40)Mhz? Date: 5 Mar 1996 23:01:31 GMT Organization: Intel Corporation Lines: 25 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4hih4b$mlg@chnews.ch.intel.com> References: <DnpJqF.82n@info.elvisti.kiev.ua> <DnrJ41.1I0@radar.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: chh016.ch.intel.com X-newsreader: xrn 7.03 Originator: tjehl@chh016.ch.intel.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:14940 alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus:11990 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems:28621 comp.os.linux.hardware:32316 comp.sys.intel:66640 In article <DnrJ41.1I0@radar.demon.co.uk>, richard@radar.demon.co.uk writes: > > Andrew V. Stesin (stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua) wrote: > > : P.S. I don't own a PCI box, but just planning to buy one, choosing > : the best bang-per-buck configuration now. > : Was considering AMD 160MHz (glorified 486, called 5x86, he-he :) > : chip, which has 40MHz main freq and 4x multiplier. > : Now I'm seriously considering AMD 133 part (this one is 33MHz, 4x). > : Guys have a very nice opinions on it. > > You may be better off at the low end of Pentium market. Cyrix 6x86-100 on > a cheap Triton motherboard is not that expensive. > > - Richard > Bang/buck, if you are going to buy a new board blow right by the 486 boards. You'll beat yourself later because of the limited bus speed/width if you don't. I don't necessarily agree with Richard's processor recommendation :), but if you want data throughput, a 486 board is absolutely the wrong thing to buy. TJ