F0O@psuvm.psu.edu (02/15/91)
I'm getting ready to buy a computer soon, but I'm not sure if I should
get a 386DX or an 386SX machine. The SX's are a couple hundred dollars
cheaper, and I've read that for some applications like Excel, there is really
not difference in speed between the two, as long as both are at the same
clock speed, and the SX has cache.
My question is, how true is this? For most of the things I do; writing
and compiling programs, games, a spreadsheet now and then, it probably won't
make much difference. But I would eventually like to get into some solid
fill 3D graphics programming.
Is the 386DX/87 pair faster at numerical computation then a 386SX/387SX
running at the same speed?
Or how about Microsoft Windows. Would an SX running windows be much
slower then a DX?
Does anyone know of any articles that talk about this?
Your help would be greatly appreciated!
[Tim]