Subject: 586 vs 486 mem access bandwidth
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: VaX#n8 <vax@linkdead.paranoia.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/17/1996 20:27:21
I'm going to upgrade to a mboard with PCI, and I'm wondering if I should
get a 586 (ahem, pentium) mboard since I've heard they have wider memory
access buses.  Is this true, and does it make a significant performance
impact?
I'm considering the ASUS SP3G for a 486 board and either ASUS or Tyan
(maybe Micronics) for a pentium board.  Tyan has the "nifty" IR transceiver
which has a high toy factor (others probably do too).
I'm not real convinced the CPU speed matters that much but I do want
high bandwidth to memory.

recommendations?
tnx