How Super are Super 7 Motherboards?
For hardware component resellers, the Super 7 motherboards and AMD K6-2 processors have been, by far, the majority of all sales the past two months. Without a Super 7 board or an AMD K6-2 processor to sell, many vendors are finding that their sales are severely lacking. The demand for these products has been driven by a lot of hype from the past 6 months, favorable reviews and pent up customer demand for higher performance (e.g. 100MHz bus speeds). Since the computer industry has been in a major depression for about 10 months, many of these boards have been ‘rushed’ to the marketplace as a sort of ‘triage’ to stop the bleeding. Several were released before the first true 100MHz processors were out, in an attempt to ‘capture’ the market. Before discussing the boards themselves, I would like to comment on the AMD K6-2 processor. This has been a very exciting product that has lived up to every expectation, and has even exceeded some. The performance of the CPU on a 100MHz bus speed is exc
