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    Which is faster?

    I'm looking for the fasted socket 370 chip I can buy... * INTEL Pentium III 1AG 256K CPU TUALATIN FCPGA2 Retail $130 -or- * Intel Celeron (Pentium III based) 1.3GHz 256K L2 Cache FCPGA2 Retail $78 Or is there a faster socket 370 chip than these? I would assume the higher clocked Celeron is...
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    Why do all current PCI modems require MMX processor?

    Oops... I think it was the original Pentium. Nevertheless, it did not have the MMX instructions, and the driver installation software pointed it out *after* copying the driver files to the hard drive.
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    Why do all current PCI modems require MMX processor?

    My friend was trying to install a PCI modem into a PII (non-MMX) computer. The driver would not install, and to my dismay I found that the box stated the processor needed to be Pentium II MMX or higher. When I looked at all the other PCI modems in Office Depot, they all had this requirement...