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David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:08:17 -0800
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On  1 Apr 98 at 0:25, Leo Castillo wrote:

> 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?

  I thought I saw that it had come out a couple of weeks ago.  I do
not, however, know of a motherboard using it that is on the market
yet....

> Does it matter if I'm just using a PII-300?

  Probably not.  My impression is that the big thing in this set is
support for a 100 MHz system bus, and that the PII-400 is the first
Intel CPU designed to work with that.

David G

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