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To: Paul Engel who wrote (52620)	4/10/1998 1:59:00 AM
From: AK2004	Respond to of 186894

Pauleron - you can not read and understand English, wow from the very site that you gave me: What about the Pentium MMX and Cyrix 6x86MX? Why did I chose to use the AMD K6 in the tests instead of the Pentium MMX or Cyrix 6x86MX? Well, first of all, the Cyrix 6x86MX wouldn't even boot at the 100MHz bus speed setting. At 100 x 2.0 the system returned a dead screen (no video) and obviously at all higher speeds the system couldn't manage to do more than make a few noises. The Intel Pentium MMX went a bit further than that, the processor would boot at 100 x 2.0 as well as 100 x 2.5 (100 x 3.0 wouldn't boot at all, which is funny since 83.3 x 3.5 works perfectly fine) however Windows 95 failed to load with a Pentium MMX installed using the 100MHz bus speed. The conclusion? As they stand today, the Pentium MMX and the 6x86MX are not designed for use with the 100MHz bus, and you shouldn't expect to be able to use the processors at bus speeds that great unless either of the manufacturers plan some significant changes to their chips, for now, the only x86 processors which will run reliably using the 100MHz bus speed are the AMD K6 and the Pentium II. Now that we've settled that, let's move onto the test...