On 17 Nov 96  19:56:10, Bob Green wrote to Joseph Hanna-rivero:



 BG> Joseph, I have a P54C supported Motherboard that states it can handle

 BG> up to 200 meg CPUs. Its clock speed it 66Mhz tops. Why do we need a

 BG> 75Mhz bus to run Cyrix 200 CPus when the Intels are happy with 66mhz? 



You don't have to. Cyrix/IBM P-200+ runs at 150 MHz clock either as

a clock doubler (m/b clock 75 MHz) or clock tripler with m/b clock

of 50 MHz. Running that chip on the m/b that can provide 75 MHz

clock has the advantage that the motherboard (hard drive controller

etc..) performs faster.



Cheers,

Tom               <-- NEW ADDRESS!!!!



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