Brad,

On Tuesday, 21 April 98, at 8:03:09 PM you wrote:
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>> I thought this over(while mowing grass) and think
>> I understand it better
>> now. First, I read that the response time of a
>> chip is the time from
>> when the chip is signaled until the time that the
>> required voltages are
>> available on the chip's pins. Second, a 200MHZ cpu
>> can "put out" some
>> kind of signal every 5 nanoseconds.

>         No. With a 66 MHz mobo, the clock period is 16 ns; less
> with 75, 83, 100 MHz mobos.
>         Then comes the fact that any cycle requires several periods,
> there are wait states, etc.

>> Brad Britton
>>
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Here are some of the more common MHz to ns cycle translations:

Clock    Cycle
25Mhz    40 ns
33Mhz    30 ns
50Mhz    20 ns
66Mhz    15 ns
100Mhz   10 ns
200Mhz    5 ns




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