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- From: dratte@theborg.mlb.fl.us (David Ratte)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Diff between 486DX2-50 and 486DX-50
- References: <1993Jan19.211233.18697@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Message-ID: <dratte.1171@theborg.mlb.fl.us>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 19:30:44 EST
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- In article <1993Jan19.211233.18697@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
- ehamrick@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Eric N Hamrick) writes:
- > Could someone tell me the difference between the two sytems
- > listed in my subject line. How much worse is the DX2, (or is
- > it worse)? Thanks,
- > Eric
- >
- > ehamrick@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
- The difference between a 486DX50 and DX2-50 depend on how much you plan to use
- your computer and for what. A DX-2 system runs on the chip at 50MHz but for
- external access like to the bus or memory it slows down to 25ishMHz.
- Performance is about 40 to 60% of that of a true DX50 depending on the
- application running. If it is just working off what is in the INTERNAL cache
- ram it flies along very close to the speed of a DX50. If the application
- require frequent writes to the bus or external cache, system cards, etc its
- performance degrades almost to the point of a 25mhz system. But suposedly it
- averages out to the 40-60% of a DX50's speed. games and the like won't slow a
- DX-2 but stuff like Autocad, DBASE, heavy software drag it a little. The cost
- between DX50 and DX-2 50 systems is narrowing rapidly and it just costs a
- little more to put together a powerhouse.
-
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