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To: Investor A who wrote (2872)	12/11/1997 6:28:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 6843

Fuchi, Brian: Glad to see there's someone in Usenet promoting the K6-300. I think the 100 MHz bus will enhance performance a lot more than 10-15% though. A K6-208 (83 MHz bus X 2.5) outperforms a K6-233 by about 3%. A 25% increase in bus speed buys you MORE than a 12% increase in CPU clock. A 50% increase in bus speed (66 to 100) will be worth more than a 25% increase in CPU clock. What this means is that a K6-250 (2.5 x 100, if there were such a thing) would be as fast as a P2-300 running on the "slow" 66 MHz bus. There's no question that Socket 7 will have 100 MHz bus first, since the "Ali" chipset is already available and the "BX" is scheduled for April/May (from Infoworld's "Intel Lays Out Road to Katmai", 12/1/97). Fuchi, any idea when motherboards using 100 MHz bus will be available? Put a K6-266 (soon to be released judging from some system reviews recently published) in one of those boards and run it at 100 x 2.5, and it should outrun the P2-300. Petz