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To: steve harris who wrote (92850)	2/14/2000 12:49:00 AM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1574854

steve and thread, I found something interesting in the VIA KX133 specs. Apparently, the processor FSB speed can be set to be the same as memory speed, 33 MHz higher, or 33 MHz lower, as long as it is <= 133 MHz. It remainds to be seen if any of the motherboard makers will enable the 133 MHz (x2 double pumped) processor speed, which might make overclocking a 650 MHz $280 Athlon to 867 MHz a possibility. Go to Acrobat's page 32 of the following PDF file: via.com.tw Also, even if 133 MHz (266 MHz double pumped) is beyond the capability of current Athlon processors, at least we know that the chipset itself is not limited to 110 MHz like the current Irongate, and that the chipset is ready for the 133 MHz FSB Athlons which are coming down the pike. Finally, the chipset supports a "divide by 4" for the PCI bus, so that AGP and PCI cards can be run in spec for any combination of memory and FSB speeds of 100 and 133 MHz. Petz