>On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
>
>> Well you may be barely using 16 MB of memory on each system. Besides a
>> 486DX4-133 was comparable to a Pentium 75 ONLY when using Win95 or less.
>> When running a pure 32 bit OS any Pentium puts a 486 to shame. Plus add
in
>> 64 bit bus compared to a 32 bit one, 50Mhz access to memory and cache as
>> compared to 33Mhz. PCI vs VLB. Maybe even EDO vs FPM DRAM. And perhaps
>> mode 4 EIDE vs old IDE. Its not surprising you P75 is faster.
>
>Yeah, I guess so. Time to go check out old P133/P166s and upgrade... on
>the cheap :o)
I'd be surprised if you could even find a standard Pentium, Intel stoped
making them months ago. Cyrix 6x86MX-PR233 about $70 now. You'd probably
want a new motherboard as well. I've seen a great el cheapo board. (I
think its an M571) SuperTX chipset, UDMA/33, builtin (AGP) video. About
$100-$150 with the optional USB, PS/2 mouse, IR port adapter. Best
performer (that I've seen), FIC VA-503+ about $110.
>
>Cheers,
>Alex
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