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To: kash johal who wrote (80689)	5/10/1999 9:39:00 PM
From: philipah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Thread: "Intel's Cheap Trick" Here's the link to Upside Today upsidetoday.com P

To: kash johal who wrote (80689)	5/10/1999 11:08:00 PM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

kash, Re: Yes the 630 is for the Intel chips. And there is a similar one for the socket 7 and KIII Which one ? Gary

To: kash johal who wrote (80689)	5/10/1999 11:19:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

<the key here is that AMD will be embracing the 133 SDRAMs while Intel will not even support the 100Mhz bus with celeron for at least 6 -8 months. So for example a k6-2 466 with 133 FSB would be much higher performance than a k6-2 475 for example.> Gee, I didn't even know that the Super 7 platform can even go to 133 MHz. It already had a tough enough time going to 100 MHz. As for Celeron, well, it's already at a 7:1 processor-to-bus clock ratio and it still scales very well in performance. Obviously that 66 MHz bus isn't hampering the Celeron that much. By the way, the Whitney chipset has a processor bus that runs at 66 MHz, yet the memory is PC100 SDRAM. This is the first chipset where the memory runs faster than the processor bus. (Camino will be the second.) This might seem counterintuitive, but actually this is fine since both the processor and the i752 graphics system accesses memory concurrently. And don't forget that those PC133 SDRAMs will be more expensive than PC100, so it looks like for the rest of the year, a socket Celeron with the Whitney chipset will have the best price/performance ratio bar none. Tenchusatsu