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To: Ali Chen who wrote (28865)	2/25/1998 8:40:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (2) of 1573822

Ali, based on your benchmark figures for castrated Covington chip, its a totally useless chip until June. June is when $20 cheaper 440-EX chipset is supposed to ship from Intel, according to heise.de This is a good article on internals of the Deschutes module. For example, then found a 4% performance penalty because the L2 cache is not interleaved anymore. IMO, Intel might as well not even release the Covington until then, its performance will be so bad. The EX chipset will allow external L2 cache and support 100 MHz bus. Plus, by then Intel will probably have double L1 cache on-chip. With 100 MHz Intel-spec SDRAM (more expensive), and $10 L2 cache, Intel will probably get the Winbench up to only a 10% penalty. So Intel will save $20 per chip production costs but force the user to spend it on faster memory. But who will want a MMX-200 class CPU then? Oh, one other thing -- the EX chipset will only support 3 PCI slots and 2 SDRAM modules. Lets see, 3D accelerator board, PCI sound card, network card and I'm full. No place to put SCSI or video capture or cable modem board or whatever! Petz

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