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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (24070)	2/24/1998 9:43:00 PM
From: Investor A	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Pravin, There just aren't any socket 7 CPUs to put in the 100 Mhz boards. That's not correct. From what I have read and listened to street talks, P54C, P55C, IMPP (Intel Mobile Processor), K6, K6-3D as well as M2 have no problems to run on 100Mhz bus speed. The real problem on either 100Mhz bus speed socket 7 or SLOT1 is the RAM. These 100Mhz bus speed system should be considered "high-end". However, VIA has figured out how to deal with the slow RAM currently sitting in users' system and deal warehouse. The VIA MVP3 has a unique option which allows the users to select either 66Mhz or 100Mhz RAM speed in case if they don't have quality RAM. I have posted a benchmark of AMD K6-3D 300Mhz with the timing of 66Mhz and 100Mhz RAM. My guess that Intel hasn't developed such an innovation on their BX chipset, has they? Fuchi ... who loves Cyrix's innovations Please support the PC industry & protect consumer interest techstocks.com