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To: Fred Fahmy who wrote (49421)	3/4/1998 7:16:00 PM
From: Pierre-X	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Hello Fred, FYI, I was also in wait mode for the BX until I read this: tomshardware.com An excerpt: ...since the Pentium II has got a L2 cache that runs at half the CPU core clock and hence completely independently of the system clock. An increase in system bus clock does therefore only improve the speed of memory reads and writes... PX w3.to

To: Fred Fahmy who wrote (49421)	3/4/1998 7:18:00 PM
From: Thomas Dremel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

What's the big deal on the 100 mhz bus? It makes the machine faster, but so what. It provides some multimedia features... what's that? (I've been wating to buy a PC also, but am still trying to figure out the significance of the 100 mhz bus). tom d