At 01:22 AM 3/23/98 -0700, Steve Wolfe wrote:
>AMD next generation CPU's will be 3D enabled chips, and will run on a 100
>mhz bus. Today there are few, if any 100mhz bus boards available, thet will
>run 100mhz bus speeds. So, it will probably be a while yet. There is a new
>chip set out by AMD, that is the AMD630 chipset that looks very promising.
>It is based on the VIA Apollo Chipset, and comes with a 1meg L2 cache. I
>understand the next generation will support upto 2 meg. It also supports
>many of the features of the LX chipset, such as Soft Power, and UDMA
>support. The only drawback that I can see, is that it only supports 83mhz
>bus speed max, so you would still need to buy a new board in the future to
>support the AMD 3D CPU's.
>
>
The motherboard isn't all you're going to have to replace; few video cards
will work at faster than 75 MHz bus speeds, and there's no telling what 100
MHz bus will require in the way of memory, etc. Such an upgrade could get
awfully expensive awfully fast.

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