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Date:      Fri, 5 Dec 1997 03:24:39 -0800 (PST)
From:      asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com
Cc:        sos@FreeBSD.dk, Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr, mark@vmunix.com, grog@lemis.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Should I buy a Cyrix processor?
Message-ID:  <199712051124.DAA05197@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <28191.881318008@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)

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 * the Asus Mobo.  But you also don't need to do this with the P6/180 as

Well, right now there is only one P6 as far as multiplier is concerned
(180/200 are both 3x chips) so I don't even know why it's an issue
here.  But for some reason, Intel decided not to disable the 3.5x or
4x (has anyone used this?) multiplier settings.

Real shame, too; if they didn't have to pretend that the PII is
faster, they could have sold a P6-233 or P6-266 (officially).
Apparently, they're fooling no one; recently the PII-233 (512K)'s
price dipped below the P6-200 (256K) in the Silicon Valley.  (I'm sure 
people who bought the PII-233 when they came out are very pleased. :> )

Satoshi



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