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To: freeus who wrote (75664)	10/29/1998 5:22:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 176387

what was that about 100 MHZ? The real factor is CPU to memory speed. This went from 4Mhz to 16Mhz under the ISA bus. PCI it started at 33Mhz and doubled to 66Mhz (a few were 50Mhz). In the last few months computers have been released with memory speeds of 100Mhz. This is what the number refers to. The memory speed needs to be a multiple of sorts of the CPU speed to interface. You can tell the memory speed by noting that the CPU is 333 Mhz (or basicly 5 times 66Mhz) giving a memory access speed of 66Mhz. The newer machines have CPU speeds of 350/400/450 Mhz indicating that they are using a memory interface of 100Mhz. Expect 133Mhz soon, especially from Compaq. Expect 600Mhz when Rambus memory controllers are used. TP