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David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 23 Mar 1998 10:56:17 -0800
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On 23 Mar 98 at 6:07, Ray Reyes wrote:

> 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.

  My understanding (such as it is) so far is that while memory will
have to be faster, most 100MHz boards are likely to allow the PCI bus
to continue to run at 33MHz (100MHz sys/3 rather than 66MHz sys/2),
and so existing peripherals should continue to work.

David G

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