Hello there Bill ....



 BG> {at}MSGID: 3:640/305.9{at}fidonet 34e513a8

 BG> Rod, at 08:48 on Apr 17 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...



BG>> Thought you might be interested in the benchmarks of my AMD

BG>> DX5/133 CPU, now that I have a motherboard which suits the chip.

BG>> Pity it's an AMI BIOS, but at least it seems to be extremely stable

BG>> at 40MHz (CPU runs {at} 160MHz), especially as I'm running 2 x VLB

BG>> cards in this machine.



RS>> Yeah, certainly one of the better buys around at the moment.



 BG> The really strange thing is that once jumpered to take the

 BG> DX5, the bootup screen reports the chip as being an "Am5x86/P75",

 BG> but then AMI could put anything they like in their BIOS without it

 BG> actually being 100% correct.



This is actually the correct terminology for this CPU. Cyrix has

designed what it calls a "P" rating for its chips and AMD has also taken

in on board. The "P" stands for "Performance" but it is
a rating based

on how the CPU rates against the range of Pentium CPUs. Hence am

Am5x86/P75 has a performance rating equivalent to a Pentium 75. If a

CPU has a rating say P100+ then it means that it surpasses the Pentium

100 but does not equal the next Pentium, the 120. This is to supposedly

show potential buyers the speed of the CPU, considering the Mhz speed is

not something that you can compare across CPU manufacturers.



Cheers,



Randall             Saturday, 20 April 1996, 18:16.

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