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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (63630)	8/31/1998 9:21:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) of 186894

My take was that since Intel was making a socket 370 for up to 500 mhz this was tantamount to admitting it was not critically needed at least up to 500 Mhz, above that ? "Not critically needed" <> "race ... lost by the slot". This was the point of my post. Now, will the socketed "C'est le rond" chip also include the cache? Perhaps the EX(?) chipset for those boards will be set up in such a way so that overclocking is not possible? Also, why buy a motherboard with no upgrade path? With a Slot 1 motherboard you have an upgrade path for up to a 133 MHz FSB P-II. If you throw away changing CPUs a direct board solution should be good to 1000 Mhz, with proper design. Getting the socket/slot out of the way could indeed improve performance. However you then have to deal with a non-upgradable or easily repairable motherboard. Something that might alleviate this would be a passive backplane system where the processor board would plug into a bus slot, but if you're going to do this then you might as well put the processor on its own card with a small bit of support circuitry and the cache... Oh, that's the P-II.

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