Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 22:16:31 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: Tom Jackson <toj@gorilla.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: supermicro p6sns/p6sas Message-ID: <199709280516.WAA04321@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 27 Sep 97 22:41:10 -0500. <19970927224110.13321@my.domain>
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>On Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 03:08:05PM -0500, Tony Kimball wrote:
>> Quoth Tom Jackson on Fri, 26 September:
>> : Considering a new atx mb myself. Trying to decide between pent pro and
>> : pent II. Wondering if socket 8 is a deadend and if intel will upgrade
>> : this architexture ( think its much better than pent II)
>> Socket 8 is a dead end. Slot 1 is also a dead end. Socket 7, on the
>> otherhand, shows no sign of slowing down, with AMD's 300 MHz K6 being
>> the fastest chip announced for it so far.
>Ugh, well maybe the announced, not released version, but definitely
>not the current releases of K6. Heard about the make world problem and
>the Linux problems.
Socket 8 indeed appears to have been a limited detour. Slot 1 may in
time be superceeded by something better. But it has much more
potential than Socket 8 at this point in time.
Socket 7, however, has some serious bandwidth problems. I'm not an
electrical engineer, but from some of the stuff I've read, there are
some radical electrical specifications involved in just making Slot 1
work. Making Socket 7 go any higher would likely involve some pretty
radical electrical changes as well, to allow it to run reliably at the
much higher clock speeds required to make it useful at all beyond
300MHz. This would make Socket 7 compatible in only the physical
socket itself, and not electrically.
Socket 7 has a very limited future. It simply doesn't have any way of
coping with some of the new technology that will be necessary to make
any sort of performance boosts possible beyond 300MHz.
AMD and Cyrix may indeed be able to perpetuate several years more of
Socket 7 chipsets, in the secondary market. But it will be a typical
AMD/Cyrix market, where performance is secondary, and low-cost is
king.
My personal opinions, obviously...
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