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Sung Min Charley Lee (chuc...@uclink3.berkeley.edu) wrote:

: > I have found that there is an enormous range of differing performance that
: > you can get out of machines which have even the same chip. I've played on
: > a friends network and one of the 486 66's was so slow that I had to play
: > on the smallest window with detail low and it still crawled. This
: > particular 486 was so bad that it was slower than his older 486-25. The
: > reason for this, as I understand it, is that the 66 has no graphics
: > accellerator. This apparently makes a huge difference. I would also assume
: > it has a slower bus.

: [stuff deleted]

: Anyhow, my point is, it doesn't necessarily have to be the video 
: equipment, the CPU, or even the bus.  Simply having your cache disabled 
: is enough to hamper computer speed.

CMOS settings can really change a computer's performance if not setup 
optimally. Many computer's default setting are very conservative. 
Settings such as DRAM wait states can cause a huge change, there are some 
FAQs on the ibm.hardware.pc groups that can give you some ideas as how to 
optimize your settings.

camiles