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John:
There is a review of the 440BX chipset in the April(number 20, page 60)
issuse of Boot Magazine.
I have also seen a review on Tom's Hardware page. I believe his review
was on an earlier copy of the 440BX.
TurtleAl
John Chin wrote:
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> At 12:25 AM 4/1/1998 Leo Castillo wrote:
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> >Hi guys, heard somewhere back in late '97 that the BX chipset is supposed to
> >come out in 1Q98.
> >
> >Well, 1Q98's over and it's still not out yet!!! Am planning to upgrade to a
> >Pentium II very soon... is BX expected to come out anytime soon? What ARE
> >the differences anyway between BX and LX? Does it matter if I'm just using a
> >PII-300?
>
> Leo:
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> I would definitely wait. The Intel BX chipset is due out
> on April 15, 1998.
>
> It will offer a 100 MHz front end BUS, instead of 66MHz.
> Improved AGP, also.
>
> Furthermore, the Celeron CPU will debut; it's an inexpensive
> P-II without the L-2 cache.
>
> So wait a little longer. Of course, you might want to wait
> for the July 1998 price cuts, too. <g>
>
> Regards,
>
> John Chin
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