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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
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On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Steve Passe wrote:

...
> that a PII-300 would overcome the PPro?  The PII will continue to get faster,
> the PPro is probably frozen @ 200mHz.

  I hope not.  I've got a PPro mb that supports clock rates up to 266mhz,
and I would like to get a chance to do that someday.

  According to whats been said here, a PPro should perform better than a
PII, if running at the same clock rate.  Hopefully Intel will allow the
PPro to run at 233 and 266 in the future.

> ps.  I'm not saying one or the other is necessarily the way to go at this point
> in time, there just is not enough info to take a stand yet!  I'm just "devil's 
> advocating" a little...
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Tom