🚀 go-pugleaf

In article: <316818e4.31077970@news.demon.co.uk>  stuart@garage.demon.co.uk 
(Stuart Booth) writes:
> 
> Has anybody around here taken the plunge and Upgraded their system to
> a Pentium Pro CPU?
> 
> Where did you go for your bits [CPU, motherboard, RAM, case]? I'd be
> very interested to learn this, as well as how much they all cost you.

Don't do it just yet Stuart. The only chipsets available so far for PPro are 
Intel Orion chipsets. They *all* (up until last month) had a bug on the PCI bus 
which could make it run slower than molasses under certain circumstances (22 
motherboard clock cycles to *start* a data transfer). Give it a couple of months 
until the buggy m/b's already in the distribution channel are exhausted. Either 
that or insist on a bug-fixed motherboard - although you'll be *very* lucky to 
get one as people like Dell will have priority from Intel.

Good old Intel - you can always rely on them to shoot themselves in the foot :)


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