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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles R who wrote (69763)	8/25/1999 12:42:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1573941

<I thought benchmarks show that 810 cuts the system performance by couple of speed grades compared to non-Whitney implementation.> Where did you get that idea? The 810 does a respectable job: anandtech.com sharkyextreme.com Even a Celeron 366 on an 810 motherboard gets 18.4 in Business Winstone 99. That's better than a similar Celeron 366 setup on a ZX motherboard (17.9), or even my own Pentium II 266 MHz w/ TNT2 and 10K RPM SCSI hard drive (16.6). And it's close to a similar Pentium II 400 setup on a BX motherboard (19.2). (All scores, except my own, are taken from AnandTech's motherboard reviews.) Of course, 3D game performance will be worse than a Voodoo2, but the guy I'm building the system for only wants to play games on occasion. If the 3D performance starts to bother him, I can always sell my old Voodoo2 card to him. In other words, the 810 chipset is a strong, hopefully stable, low-cost platform. (By the way, I'm going for the slightly more expensive DC100 version of 810, which includes a 4 MB display cache. I'm also going with an Ultra-66 hard drive, which should keep performance healthy, especially with the 810's new "Accelerated Hub Architecture," a.k.a. HubLink.) Tenchusatsu