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Epstein) wrote:
>Personally I would not buy an old-style Pentium system with the 64 MB caching
>problem. From what I read, it is unlikely to severely impact your performance,
>but it will affect it somewhat.
There are a number of motherboards for old-style Pentium chips which
don't use the TX chipset. Some have virtually all the goodies of the
new Pentium II motherboards. There are a few currently in production
which will cache more than 64MB of memory. There are a few which will
cache up to 255 MB depending on how the caching is setup in the bios.
>The Pentium II systems should not be that much more expensive. Note that the
>chips themselves have fallen drastically in price within the last few months,
>and now only cost 10 or 20 percent more than their predecessors.
I don't know what the pricing is like in the UK but as a U.S. resident
I would definitely purchase a Pentium II if I were buying a new
system.
>See
>http://www.pricewatch.com/
>To illustrate these price differences.
Price Watch is probably the best search engine for hardware on the
net. But when it comes to software and CPUs I prefer ComputerESP at
http://www.computeresp.com/. It provides pricing information on boxed
CPUs as well as tray CPUs. Boxed Pentium II 233 chips are now cheaper
than Pentium Classic 233 boxed chips. I believe Intel is trying to
kill the market for new systems with anything but Pentium II chips.
