I had always heard and believed that the Pentium Pro
out-performed PII's of the same speed.  The supposed
reason for this was that by putting the cache chip
together with the cpu chip they could be more closely
coupled -- my understanding was that there was greater
bandwidth between the cache ans the cpu.

According to this theory, the Pentium Pro experiment
was the better performing design, but Intel had to back
away from it because of the yield problems that
[log in to unmask] mentioned.

(I never done a head-to-head performance test myself.)


Bill Cohane <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> At 05:21 10/23/00, Alan Priol wrote:
> >I have just purchased a socket 8 M/Board in an auction. This socket is
> >vastly different from a socket 7 board. What CPU is needed to fit this
> >M/Board?
>
>
> Socket 8 boards take the Intel Pentium Pro processor.
>
> The Pentium Pro was the first 6th generation x86 processor from Intel.
> Pentium Pro processors performed on a par with Pentium II processors
> of the same speed (**). As far as I know, the fasted retail Pentium
> Pro was 200 MHz.
>
> (**) Note: Since the slowest Pentium II is 233 MHz., this statement
>       is based on tests run while running (overclocking) the Pentium
>       Pro at 233 MHz..

     Frank R.Brown
     Frank.R.Brown@MailAndNews

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