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To: tejek who wrote (69100)	8/17/1999 9:31:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1585845

Tenchusatsu, RE: Since I do not have a tech background, I wanted to get clear what Anand is pointing out. It does not sound like he thinks its the Athlon chip itself that is the problem but rather the chipset. The chipset is probably part of the problem, but hasn't Paul and others pointed out the fact PIII's run at cpu clock for L2 cache and Athlon runs at half. From past readings here, I thought this was a hot topic - Intel choose speed with smaller cache and AMD choose larger cache slower cache access speed. Cache is what makes a Xeon a Xeon instead of a PII, and why people pay big money for "server chips". Cheers, Eric. PS: Hope Anand figures it out soon, should be interesting to read his take on the subject.

To: tejek who wrote (69100)	8/17/1999 10:06:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1585845

Ted - RE: "I assume the chipset is made by an oem, and if it is not functioning well, is this usually the fault of the chipset design or the manufacture of the chipset or both? If it's a design problem is AMD the one responsible for correcting the problem? And if it is manu., then is it the oem's problem?" AMD makes the chipset in question. Nowadays (I don't know about the past) OEMs never make their own chipsets for personal computers. OEMs may have a motherboard, with a certain chipset, specially made for them. If it is a design problem, AMD would be the one responsible for correcting it, like Intel had to correct the i810 chipset (and Camino, and Profusion, and Profusion, and Profusion).