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Article #4666Re: 3DBench Scores and Video cards
From: Rajesh Varia
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 00:00
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p...@po.cwru.edu "Philip Epstein" writes:
> vv...@minf.vub.ac.be (Vincent Vinh-Hung) wrote:
>
> >more appropriately designated "dx2-100", while "dx4-100" most often
> >imply bus speed of 25 MHz (or sometimes 33 MHz).
>
> No, DX4-100 ALWAYS means it's a clock-TRIPLED chip. It has a 33Mhz
> bus. No one sells a DX4 chip that is clock quadrupled. Stupid Intel
> started the DX4 thing because they couldn't copyright processer
> numbers so they called their DX4-100 the IntelDX4-100. But it's NEVER
> been a clock-quadrupled chip, always clock-tripled.
>
> Phil Epstein
>
I thought that the AMD chip could also be run as a DX2-100 (ie
50 MHz external, 100 MHz internal). This would be good if your
cards can handle it.
Rajesh Varia r...@c4rv.demon.co.uk
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