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To: Charles Gryba who wrote (151738)	12/8/2001 3:26:36 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Constantine, Re: "Tbird when it came out ( at around 800 Mhz ) at 200Mhz FSB can now upgrade to a 1.4Ghz Tbird. They are not stranded comlpetely." Incorrect. Many of the motherboards that were available at the time of the 800MHz Thunderbird were restricted to a 12x or 13x multiplier, with the exception of a few boards that supported a BIOS update to allow multipliers up to 14x. At any rate, you probably missed my point earlier. Intel has gone through a few platform changes, but so has AMD. Any time you buy the top of the line, you run the risk of the platform becoming obsolete before you can buy the next meaningful upgrade. On the other hand, low end purchases tend to have headroom on upgradability. If you bought an 800MHz Celeron right now, you could run it on the same board Paul was mentioning (the i815EAA), and later upgrade to a Celeron running at 1.5GHz next year. The difference is that because of technical advancements, it's hard to guarantee forward-compatibility. On the other hand, Intel is pretty good with offering backward compatibility with their platform changes (and so is AMD). wbmw