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To: Charles R who wrote (68695)	8/13/1999 8:15:00 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 1576589

Re: 133MHz puts additional burden on Camino motherboards They probably don't need an additional burden. All of the vendors for Athlon boards have been fooling around with the chipsets and board layouts for months. Plenty of time to work out bugs - the perfect stability of the Athlon systems running benchmarks (at least so far) is, frankly, somewhat of a surprise. It's especially interesting to see xeons failing to complete some of the same benchmarks under identical conditions. If rambus is continuing to have binsplit problems (eg rambus 800 comes as 40, 45, and 50 ns parts and only the 40s and to a degree the 45s seem to run as well as or better than PC100) then intel either has to walk away from much of the high end market due to insufficient available memory (regardless of Athlon) or adopt PC133. If they rush out new motherboards and chipsets they stand a good chance of having a serious bug or incompatability slip out. I think intel may be, for a few months at least, stuck in the kind of position that AMD has traditionally found itself in. Time will tell - Dan