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Re: AMD K6-2 or Celeron?

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From: Mark Powell
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:00
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In article <cCbdcEAo8m64Ewr7@zenn.demon.co.uk>,
Marcus Durham  <Marcus@zenn.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <01aiesk7oq7trpukvnspiqha9o765qum8r@pink.semolina.org> {R}
><{R}@soggy.semolina.org> shared the following with us in demon.tech.pc:
>[snip]
>>AFAIK all Celerons will work at 100Mhz Bus speed, certainly the 300 and 466
>>do.
>>
>This 466 and BE6 fail to even boot at that speed. Just a black screen.
>The best I can get out of it is 583MHz at a 83MHz bus speed.

That's not to say it's the limit of the CPU though. If you had an ABit
BE6-2 or BF6, you could probably get it higher. They are stable boards
that also allow setting the bus speed in 1MHz increments from 83MHz to
200MHz. If you already have one of those boards, then you have reached the
limit :)

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Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 or Celeron?
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