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Re: PCI Express
With regards to the ddr2 comment i was refering to system ram, not graphics as they are the same between boards.
Later era pentiums (mmx's) were socket 7. Intel shifter over to slot 1 at 233mhz with the p2, and brought some new features with it. The last intel chipsets for the p1 were the 430tx and vx. Neither of which had agp.
This however was at the time of amd's first big push in a long time with the K6 this chip rapmed to 266 (i think could of been 300 not sure) but in a dick dastidly move by intel socket 7 boards using there chipsets hit a ceiling. In comes Ali, SIS and via to save the day forming the super socket 7 format. Which brought the features of more modern slot 1 boards to the ageing s7 platfrom, as well as allowing for much greater speed. I believe the via mvp2 allowed upto 550mhz. Because the boards were pin compatible with s7. pentium chips worked just fine in the ss7's. Intel also quickly dried up supplys of there own boards yet kept there was a backlog of p1 chips to clear so pc manufacturers often used a p1 and ss7 combo.
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