From: Kyle Davenport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 10:54 PM
> Greg Youngblood wrote:
>
> > Personally, I'm sold on the Athlon. I had to return the mobo and
processor I
> > used on my testing, but I'm going to get another one. My only
complaint --
> > the Athlons want 300 watt power supplies. Actually AMD has a list of
> > 'approved' power supplies. That and the FIC SD11 mobo didn't have a
standard
> > ATX configuration.
>
> Asus K7M now available. PC Power & Cooling 300W TurboCool is $99.
Where -- Last I looked it wasn't on their web site, and my ASuS vendor
doesn't have it either. And, how much?
> > I believe the memory bus has the ability to run up to 200 MHz FSB, just
like
> > the Alphas. However, if you load it with 100mhz memory, it will run at
100
> > mhz. If you use PC-133 memory, you'll need to make sure the mobo will
> > support 133 fsb (the SD11 would need a bios upgrade to support pc-133
memory
> > at 133 mhz). I do not believe the memory bus runs at 2x the memory, I
think
> > that 200mhz figure is the max. speed of the FSB.
>
> I'm surprised there has not been more discussion of the "200 MHz FSB". I
> believe it refers to the memory bus being able to use DDR-SDRAM (Double
Data
> Rate SDRAM - data on both rise and fall of a clock cycle) when it becomes
> available in Dec.
I know -- it is one of the most underreported features I think.
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