[svlug] AMD-K6 hmmmmmm

[Sam Ockman]

On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 09:16:53PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Sam wrote (replying to Charles P.):
>  
> > You won't get much advantage from the 100 MHz bus without at least 
> > a 350MHz chip.
> 
> I'm curious as to what your reasoning is.  It seems to me that a fast
> local bus is a good idea at any speed up to a 1:1 multiplier.  Memory
> access.

Sorry, if I wasn't clear.  My reasoning is that with a CPU at 333MHz or
slower, the bus runs at 66MHz.  It needs a 350MHz or higher CPU to run at
100MHz.


> > I haven't heard much about EPOX.
> 
> http://www.epox.com/
> 
> Intel 440BX and VIA Apollo MVP3 chipsets for 100MHz local bus.  Looks
> OK based just on the spec sheets.

Even I have enough of an engineering background to make a motherboard by
putting together chips.  (Well, okay, I once designed CPUs/data paths/etc.,
so that makes it easier, even if it was academic, not industry.) Making
motherboards is easy to do, but hard to do well, so that the finished
product is reliable.

-Sam

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