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To: Rick Labs who wrote (5432)4/9/1998 1:21:00 AM
From: Adrian Wu  Respond to of 6843
 
There are 34 motherboard manufacturers about to release 100MHz boards based on the VIA MVP3 chipset. Check it out: via.com.tw
In addition, there will be many more manufacturers releasing products based on the ALi Alladin V chipset.
Don't worry, there will be plenty of super 7 motherboards. Socket 7 lives! That means prices will be low because of competition. That also means a cost advantage for K6 since Intel will not let any Taiwan manufacturer sell a PII chipset (although VIA, ALi and SIS all have slot 1/100MHz chipsets).
The K6/266 overclocks VERY WELL, and can easily get beyond 300MHz (100x3). Judging by the improved yield, some K6/300s (whenever you can get hold of one) should quite comfortably run at 100x3.5 However, I am going to wait for the K6-3D.

Adrian



To: Rick Labs who wrote (5432)4/9/1998 11:27:00 AM
From: Ali Chen  Respond to of 6843
 
Rick, <Why a less than 10% boost in performance>
Because they probably meant application performance
as measured by "industry standard" Winstone scores.
Roughly speaking, in current applications, 1/3 of
run-time sticks to hard drive (which is the same),
1/3 goes to process instructions at internal rate
(same again), and only 33% goes to bus accesses.
Improving the bus by 3/2 your total gain is about
10%.

Regards,

ALi


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