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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (109334)	5/4/2000 2:44:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578903

ted, you have a kx133 chipset? steve

To: tejek who wrote (109334)	5/4/2000 3:34:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578903

Ted - RE: "Yes, I did...why would I expect to have to replace a MB when I upgraded Athlons. Given the way chip costs were dropping, I figured I could do the upgrade in 6 mos to a year with a new 950 chip for the same price as the 550 I installed in March. I believe others are thinking the same way; not knowing that they will have to replace 6 mos old MB's at the same time." You will still be able to put in a 950, but it will have to be a classic Athlon (K75) and not the faster Thunderbird. But since you say you have a FIC SD-11 motherboard, which uses the AMD 750 northbridge, you may be able to use a Thunderbird if slockets (socket -> slot adapters) do end up being produced. But that is an uncertainty for now. We'll know a lot more in a month or so.