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To: Robert Walter who wrote (4001)	1/22/1998 1:34:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6843

Robert, I haven't seen any benchmarks yet for Intel's 440BX chipset based motherboards, so what you say is conjecture. Do you know differently? Assume though for a minute that what you say is correct. Intel is still likely to be well ahead of any Socket7 offering in raw frequency, so the issue is moot. It looks like Intel will announce a 333mhz PII next week. That still leaves them 2 speed grades ahead of what AMD has announced but apparently not yet able to ship in the form of a 266mhz K6 on a .25u process. I suspect that by the time Intel is ready with their 100mhz bus 440BX, they may very well be ready with a MUCH higher frequency Deschutes processor. Perhaps as much as 4-5 speed grades ahead of anything AMD can hope to ship in that time frame. They are doing 300mhz on .35u, do you really think 333mhz is all they can do with .25u? As Homey would say, I don't think so....... As a faithful AMD zelot was fond of saying, STAY...... TUNED..... EP

To: Robert Walter who wrote (4001)	1/22/1998 1:43:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6843

Robert - Re: 100 MHz Bus Speed/L2 Cache Intel will be using the 100 MHz 440 BX chip set with the Deschutes (0.25 micron) version of the Pentium II. The Deschutes can be equipped with an L2 cache running at either 1/2 the Deschutes clock speed or the same 1x (full) clock speed as the Deschutes. Thus, when the 350/400 Mhz Deschutes is introduced with the 440 BX, the system clock will run at 100 MHz and the internal L2 cache will be accessed at 350 MHz or 400 MHz for the 1x configuration. I think this L2 access (350/400 MHz) will be faster than a 100 MHz L2 cache on a socket 7 CPU. Paul