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To: patrick tang who wrote (31913)	5/4/1999 11:25:00 AM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Patrick, I have no doubt that you were able to squeeze 458MHz out of a Celeron/366. But somewhere around 400MHz you start to get IO-bound and running the bus at a sub-66MHz speed or dropping the PIO mode down to stabilize the hard drive costs more than you gain in CPU cycles. Even if you did manage to get the drive to run at a higher bus speed, you can bet that your next video card upgrade won't. The fastest safe speed today seems to be 75MHz and even then is too fast for many state-of-the-art drives and video. In my book, spending an extra $30-$40 to go up one Celeron speed bin is the more sensible option. Craig PS Sorry for all the tech talk. Just trying to get it out of my system before the CYRX and/or AMD deliver something other than slides.