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

To: Elmer who wrote (119047)7/3/2000 8:35:35 PM
From: dougSF30  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578305
 
Elmer, it is my understanding that CPU frequency does indeed affect the demands placed on the motherboard and its chipset, but I lack enough technical knowledge in this area to justify it. However, as circumstantial evidence, I offer you this:

Why do we see motherboards qualified up to speed X, and no higher?

Even if the Gateway issue is the fault of the power supply in that system, that doesn't explain the shortcomings of these other motherboards at higher frequencies. And I recall plenty of discussion on this thread about motherboard manufacturers having design difficulties as CPU speeds increase.

Granted, this is not direct evidence, but I'm sure someone else on the thread can supply us with that.

Doug

p.s. SI working again? How unusual.



To: Elmer who wrote (119047)7/3/2000 9:33:13 PM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578305
 
OT Re: BTW my dual Celeron MB uses 2 processors of differing internal speeds...

You mean all that talk about the CPUs having to be from the same production lot was hot air? We always forced our vendors to use same lot CPUs on dual processor systems because that was what was speced (I think by Intel). We were told that otherwise there could be cache coherency issues.

And you have no problems with chips running different speeds?

<LOL>

Dan


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