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Re: Speeeeeed



On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Nir Simionovich wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Yaron wrote:
> 
> > I used to have a CyrixP166 (at 133MHz), 32megs RAM and a Cirrus Logic...
> > uh, 5446 is it? with 2megs. 
> > 
> > No I've got an Intel MMX 200MHz, 48megs RAM and a Diamond Stealth/S3
> > ViRGe, also with 2MB. 
> 
>   I'm sorry to inform you that the CyrixP166 and the Intel's Pentium
> 200MMX give almost the same performance. Tests that were conducted by most
> magazines came to the conclusion that the CyrixP166 in some cases out does
> the Pentium 200. 

Yes, but Cyrix' chips are much slower than Intel Pentium's
at floating-point calculations. So, one has to make a decision what is
more important for him.

	Shlomi Fish