19 Feb
2002
19 Feb
'02
9:20 a.m.
On 18 Feb 2002, at 13:25, Guy Marson wrote:
I too will get a new machine when there is a speed-increasement of about 5x (versus the now used 600Mhz Athlon-K7). So I will install a partition with an old DOS (6.22) specially for Fractint.
I tend to go in doubles. Currently using a 700MHz Duron in one box, which was bought to replace the 350- MHz K6-2 box. My next jump requires a motherboard replacement, so something in the 1.4GHz range would be OK. It'll be awhile before I jump higher than that, probably. The bottlenecks in PC performance are such that speeds higher than that produce little difference in actual performance. As one e-mail tagline I've seen said, "All computers wait at the same speed!" David gnome@hawaii.rr.com