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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (35388)	8/1/1998 12:45:00 PM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575328

Jim, Re:Call these guys and you can get a Super 7 Biostar mobo Have you ? I am quite happy with my soon to be outdated PII 300/440LX. >when some folks spend a lot of money on a computer >(most people consider a computer an expensive item) >they like to think they can upgrade it. That is why I said, a myth. I have a lot of P75/90/100/133 sitting around which I want to plug a K6/Cyrix in. Unfortunately, the bus speed is not correct(some of them is 50Mhz, 60Mhz), the clock multiplier is not correct(most top out at 2x or 3x), the voltage is not correct(many are 3.3v). If people really want to think about CPU upgrade, they should consider WHEN to expect that to happen ? If they expect anything less than 12 Month, it may be better to just get a faster CPU now(one faster is still cheaper than one cheaper + one upgrade). If it is beyond that, the chances of just plug another CPU is extremely small. Take K6-2 as an example, will there still be K6-2 by year 2000? I thought Jerry promised us the K7 that will be so great but if I remembered, it does not use Socket. Gary