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To: Joe NYC who wrote (2063)	11/11/1997 2:47:00 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

Jozef, re:<Are 266 and 300 MHz chips going to run at 66x4 and 66x4.5, or is AMD going to adopt 75, 83 and 100 MHz bus?> I wish AMD had officially adopted 75MHz like Cyrix did, there's hardly any cards that aren't reliable at 75. The processor chip doesn't care what the bus speed is, at least up to 83 MHz. Uberclockmeister Tom said the AMD K6 is the only chip he could get to work at 100 MHz bus speed using a special one-of-a-kind motherboard someone lent him. Its the chipset that has to support the higher bus speed, along with a very well designed motherboard. At this point I would get a Shuttle 603 which has a 1MB L2 cache, and no 64M limit on cacheable RAM like most Intel chipsets (except the HX, which doesn't support SDRAM). When the K6-266 comes out, set it to run at 753.5=262.5 MHz. With a K6-300, running at 754 will be far superior to 664.5. Until you can buy a K6-266, you can get a K6-200 for about $160, and almost certainly it will run at 723=225 MHz. In fact, thats exactly what I intend to do. (I do a lot of simulations involving floating point and the Cyrix M2 would be slower.) Apparently AMD is going to jump from 66 MHz to 100 MHz bus sometime in '98, but at least the 266 MHz chip is already expected in December. Petz