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Article #5760Re: ��500+MHz system for home use��
From: Bill Slack
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 00:00
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Rodney Reid wrote: > > Impossible. Since there are no 100mhz bus boards out yet, how could you > get to 500mhz? > > If you want to spend a lot of money, get a slot 0 board that supports the > 300mhz Pentium II: Cyrix is currently battling for the ability to use > the slot 0 too for their next generation chip, so there may be an upgrade > path for awhile. It's the fastest intel-compatible chip out currently. > > For my money, my next board is going to be an up to 83mhz socket 7 board > with a AMD K6-233. This way I can later on (say, 9 months to a year) > sell the board and the chip and only lose, maybe a hundred bucks. > : 500MHz or something like that e.g Alpha... Any suggestions on which > : processor, motherboard etc. I should get? > But he said an Alpha Chip, not an Intel chip (Well, Alpha isn't owned by Intel.. Yet). There are 533mhz Alpha's readily availible as we speak that run Windows NT.. Though I dunno if it would be great to buy (unless you have a specific purpose).. i.e. it's not going to be great for games or anything..
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f57db,616c2f0c95931cc6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf57db,public X-Google-Thread: 110292,616c2f0c95931cc6 X-Google-Attributes: gid110292,public X-Google-Thread: 108c83,616c2f0c95931cc6 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public X-Google-Thread: 1164f8,616c2f0c95931cc6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1164f8,public X-Google-Thread: 10d0a1,616c2f0c95931cc6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d0a1,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,616c2f0c95931cc6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public From: Bill Slack <slack_will@bentley.edu> Subject: Re: ��500+MHz system for home use�� Date: 1997/10/16 Message-ID: <3446642B.3293@bentley.edu> X-Deja-AN: 281480512 References: <877004488.11709@dejanews.com> <6258fo$e1q$1@earth.execpc.com> Reply-To: slack_will@bentley.edu Organization: Bentley College, Waltham, MA Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.benchmarks,aus.computers