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To: grok who wrote (83714)	6/17/1999 4:36:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

then this is a case of Intel cramming drdram down people's throats Once processors get above about 500Mhz then the SDRAM memory becomes a gating bottleneck. The user will see almost no speed improvement with the higher processors unless they get higher speed memory. Raising the bus speed to 133 would help a little but would top out at a bit above 600Mhz. It takes a big improvement in memory speed before the system performance increases enough to get anyone to fork over their cash. DRDRAM is the only thing on the horizon. SDRAM on a 600 or 700Mhz Coppermine makes no sense, nobody would pay more for it than SDRAM on a Katmai. TP

To: grok who wrote (83714)	6/17/1999 5:11:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 186894

<But if they don't decide to support 440 BX or i810e for Coppermine then can OEMs use them anyway? I'm asking this as a serious question. Can they use non-supported CPU-Chipset combos? Can they even buy them separately as in non-kitted?> Yeah, I'm pretty sure you can pair up any Intel chipset with any processor that you want if you can get the pair to work. But if an unsupported CPU-chipset combo doesn't work, it won't be Intel's fault. For example, there was a minor flap over the incompatibility between a Pentium III and the first 810 Whitney chipset. Intel didn't say that this combination was off-limits. They only said that this was merely unsupported. Tenchusatsu