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To: kash johal who wrote (48851)	2/7/1999 1:05:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571813

Re: "The bus runs at 333Mhz and this is the speed the microprossor see's. However as DRAM doesn't run at this speed the CHIPSET muxes the 333 Mhz bus to 4 83 Mhz bussess. This allows the processor bus to run at 4x the DRAM speed." Exactly!!! It takes 4x64 bit buses running interleaved at 83mhz to provide the bandwidth of a single 64bit 333mhz bus!!! So it DOES require huge pincount and there is no 200mhz bus. Thank you for making my point. This is NOT a desktop solution. It is a kludge thrown together when price and real estate is a minor factor. EP