I was a technician at futureshop when the PIII systems hit... I myself have
a PII 400 I was the first tech there to play with the new PIII 500 I noticed
NO speed increase in fact i would almost want to say it took longer to do
anything than my system did... except it did reboot faster.. but it had alot
of problems on a fresh install of win98 compared to my machine at home.
Maybe I just got a bad PIII? not sure but i am happy with an old PII 400 :)
RReed
----- Original Message -----
From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 8:06 PM
Subject: Re:[newbie]PIII Performance
> OK, lots of people have had a say.
>
> Ask yourself, "Why do I want to upgrade?"
>
> If your answer is "to build a fire-breathing behemoth", then go for the
> best you can get.
>
> If your answer is "to eliminate some perceived slowness", then get
> something better than you have.
>
> Since you say you have a PII-266 now, it is likely that we have a 66 MHz
> Front Side Bus on board and a processor running at 4X bus speed. First,
> determine if your board can crank out a 100MHz Front Side Bus rate and
> that your memory is indeed PC100 compatible (SDRAM doesn't all work at
> 100MHz).
>
> If you can get the Bus speed improved, you will see a much greater
> improvement than you would with just a faster processor, with the
> exception of solving systems of partial differential equations, matrix
> transformations, and 3D rotations of coordinates, processes that are
> more processor-bound than memory- or I/O-bound. In other words, a 450
> sitting on your board and still running at 66MHz is going to be
> whistling at 6.5 times bus speed, or about 433, and is going to be
> yawning, saying "Ho hum, I wonder when some data will arrive to be
> processed."
>
> Next item is the Power requirement. I know several people with more
> money than sense who snapped up P-IIIs as soon as they could get them,
> than called me in to get them working. Not all boards built for the
> P-II can source the 2.2v at 18 freakin' amps the P-III requires. Make
> sure whatever board you have or choose is one of them before you choose
> a P-III.
>
> I hope these considerations assist you in making a decision that will
> not disappoint whatever your purpose is.
>
> Civileme
>
> --
> Civileme Say:
>
> "He who buys Pentium III had lots of bucks"
>
>
>
