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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (33626)6/28/1998 11:16:00 PM
From: Buckwheat  Read Replies (1) of 1571985
 
Elmer,, a couple of points worth noting.

1) Intel has no support for 100 mhz bus Celeron at the moment. The EX chipset (66 Mhz FSB) was designed specifically for the Celeron. See chipset link below (same site you referred me to)

tomshardware.com

2) Who in their right mind is going to dish out the additional dollars for a BX board (100 mhz) if they're having to cut corners and buy a cacheless PII (celeron)?

3) Again, who is going to buy and load Windows NT on an econo machine? And how much of the computing world runs High End Windows NT WINSTONE even once every 6 months (1% maybe).

4) Where can one buy a 400/100, 350/100, or 300/100 (for that matter) Celeron machine? Maybe TOM should have thrown in one of those 450 mhz super-cooled K6-2s.

5) 16/32 bit mix code (WIN 95/98) is about 90% or more of the installed OS base. The K6 is designed to take advantage of this; Not to "make the Celeron look bad"

6) K6 300/100 mhz bus is supported. Celeron anything/100 mhz bus is not supported.

7) Dell and Gateway are always the first to release systems based on Intel's new cutting edge, flagship CPUs. Where are the Dell and Gateway Celeron machines?

8) And OBTW, the K6-3 (with 256K on chip cache) is due out late this year also. So... this discussion might not be a moot point after all.

Regards
Buckwheat
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