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To: Charles R who wrote (66706)	7/26/1999 8:15:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574043

Chuck - RE: "I found the news about Compaq using 810 with 600MHz PIII is interesting. I was under the impression that 810 was for the low end of the market. Any comments on this?" Yeah. I remember the Intelabees talking about how no one would use the i810 chipset with the PIII after news hit that initial i810 chipsets had a problem running the PIII. "The i810 chipset is for the low-end, the PIII is a high end processor. No one will combine the two."!!! Also interesting from the link - ""No one really cares about megahertz anymore. We are just being drawn into it. We don't switch until they stop selling the ones we are currently buying," said an IT manager for a Fortune 50 oil company. However, Compaq, IBM, and Dell will also introduce 600-MHz and 500-MHz systems on the consumer side where there is a heightened interest in performance. " So in the commercial world, MHz doesn't matter but in retail it still does.

To: Charles R who wrote (66706)	7/26/1999 8:23:00 PM
From: kapkan4u	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574043

<I found the news about Compaq using 810 with 600MHz PIII is interesting.> Chuck, I was surprised to see PIII-600/810 combination myself. It just shows that MHz sells even when it makes no sense. The slow integrated graphics controller will limit the system's performance. But dude, I am surfing the Web on my 56k connection at the speed of 600MHz. Cool man. And I got it for under $1k. <Any thoughts on who the prime beneficiaries of the 810 problems will be on the chipset/graphics side would be? SIII? VIA? NVDA? Someone else?> My hope is that AMD will get some of the accounts they lost in Q1 back. Kap.

To: Charles R who wrote (66706)	7/26/1999 9:01:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574043

<I found the news about Compaq using 810 with 600MHz PIII is interesting. I was under the impression that 810 was for the low end of the market. Any comments on this?> Could be a Whitney proliferation, the 810e. Check out the roadmaps on Sharky Extreme, where the 810e chipset shows up in several market segments, including Pentium III: sharkyextreme.com Don't ask me what the difference is between the 810 and the 810e, because I don't know. Tenchusatsu