Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!ucsd!network.ucsd.edu!weber!nbeck From: nbeck@weber.ucsd.edu (Nathaniel Beck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Why buy a DX over an SX? Message-ID: Date: 14 Apr 91 17:10:26 GMT References: <14534@encore.Encore.COM> <1991Apr12.162615.13529@holos0.uucp> Sender: news@network.ucsd.edu Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: weber.ucsd.edu My recollection (and it is often wrong) is that SX chips come in 16mh and 20mh varieties. It is hard for me to see why anyone who would settle for that clock speed would demand DX. On the higher end, some friends who were thinking of buying 386 25mh machines (with 387) found that the 486 25mh machines were a much better buy (just a few hundred dollars more for a 50% performance boost). So it may be the case that the only 386 systems that will sell are SX's, or else the price of DX's will drop enough to make the SX irrelevant. I guess Intel would like to make AMD's 386 venture an unpleasant one. Neal -- Neal Beck Dept of Politcal Science, UCSD beck@ucsd.edu Dislaimer: The Regents pay me (a bit!) to distribute my opinions.