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To: Bijan Khazri who wrote (9788)	12/27/1999 8:43:00 PM
From: QwikSand	of 14778

CPU: PIII 500. Seems to be the best balance between price and performance. I'm thinking about a similar issue, although I'm sort of hooked on ASUS motherboards. I currently use PII 450s, and am looking to move to PIII. My plan is to put a couple of non-coppermine PIII 600's into my current motherboard (a dual-processor ASUS P2B-DS which can't handle coppermines), because I agree that there just won't be enough 820 boards around for the near term. The reason I'm hesitating is that Intel just announced within the last few days that they're already shipping limited quantities of the 800MhZ PIII to box builders, and will ship them in volume in January, which is 2 months ahead of schedule. Therefore I have to figure that within a few weeks, the price of the retail-box .25-micron PIII 600's will have to drop from around $420 (now) to around $300. So I'm waiting a few more weeks to buy processors. By the way, I don't know your motherboard but I think it's possible that you actually will get a little more speed out of PC133 memory even on a 100Mhz bus, if you adjust some BIOS settings. Regards, --QwikSand

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