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- From: rlee@bgsu.edu (Bob Lee)
- Subject: Best componants
- Message-ID: <BxxpEC.FpM@andy.bgsu.edu>
- Sender: rlee@andy.bgsu.edu (Bob Lee)
- Organization: Bowling Green State Univ.
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:03:46 GMT
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- Hey hardware gurus, I'm sold on AMD. But leave it to me to come up with
- more questions.
-
- I'm almost positive I'm going to purchase a 386DX-40, as soon as I sell my
- old system.
-
- I know not all IBM systems are alike and they are engineered differently.
- I'm curious if any of you know which companies engineer their computers
- very well. Like making data transfer from the CPU <-> buss <-> cards
- exceptionally fast. I know Advanced Logic Solutions builds their drive
- and video controllers directly into the board which greatly improves
- overall performance. My understanding of a well-engineered IBM is one that
- has a fast CPU that handles the buss bottleneck very well. What companies
- do this engineering and do it well?
-
- Besides overall performance, I REALLY want video performance. I'm a big
- game player and I plan to use a windowing environment on my new system.
- Unless I'm mistaken, 386 systems do not have a 32-bit expansion slot so
- you can't use a local bus card, but how about those S3 Coprocessor ISA
- cards that have a video processor on the card, sort of like a math
- co-processor. Do they speed up performance transparently or do they have
- to be addressed specifically like a math co-processor does? Any other
- screaming fast cards that you know of?
-
- If anyone would like a summery of this information let me know and I'll
- post it. I think it would be very valuable.
-
- -BOB
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