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To: kash johal who wrote (90938)	2/1/2000 5:26:00 PM
From: Scot	Read Replies (1) of 1575391

First having your own chipset ASSURES quality and performance. Pretty DUMB to have a BILLION dollar fab investment wasted by crappy MB's and chipsets. True. But what help were all those 750's last summer without MBs? Are you suggesting AMD get into the MB biz as well? Perhaps you can come up with a real good reason - besides motherhood and apple pie. What's wrong with apple pie? <g> All your reasons are good ones. All I can do is make an argument in support of the status quo. So I guess the best one I can make is that chipsets alone are not determinative of MB supply and overall PC performance. Since AMD is not ready to enter the MB market, I would rather have them focus their limited resources on cpu development and leave chipsets to partners. Now VIA comes along with a crappy chipset. Intel must be rolling on the floor laffing their assess off. I didn't realize the kx133 was a crappy chipset. All we have are limited performance specs from a single reviewer which suggest that the performance is comparable. The chipset, however, has additional features not available on the 750 (e.g., AGP 4x and pc133 support...some of the same BS Intel has been pushing). But talk about fiascos....does i820 ring a bell? Intel phases out the BX only to push a chipset with inferior sdram performance! Awesome! Check out the Anandtech review when you get a chance. anandtech.com Here are some of the Quake benchmarks: anandtech.com The MTH heavily penalizes the i820 + SDRAM setup here as it is beaten by every since competitor, BX, 133A and i820 + RDRAM, on a clock for clock basis. The performance hit the i820 takes from the MTH is so bad that even at 825MHz the FC-PGA on a BX running at 682MHz has no problem beating it. -Scot

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