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From: root@kesher.UUCP (Aaron_Schmiedel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Performance of 386SX
Summary: Numbers
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Date: 4 Jun 90 15:52:21 GMT
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Your MIPS and Coretest ratings look pretty good.  You may want to
check your buss speed (if you have the Chips & Technology chip set)
and try upping the speed on it a little.  USUALLY (but there are many
factors dependant) the data transfer rate should be around 600K -
but that is under optimum conditions.  At 460K, you are still doing
a GREAT job compared to the standard MFM stuff.
  
BUT, the IDE has on-board disk-caching (usually about 64K worth) so
this shows as a significant speedup in Coretest.  
  
Those numbers are great, but remember the most important factor:
  
Are you happy with the way it is performing?