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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (76955)	10/25/1999 8:51:00 PM
From: greg nus	Respond to of 1572776

Thread, Info on Intel's chip release. siliconinvestor.com

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (76955)	10/25/1999 11:25:00 PM
From: RDM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572776

<Now that I think about it, I take back what I said about Kryotech, especially in regard to the developer who cares about time-to-market and wants to know right now how useful his product will be on future machines>. There are also a group of users that run simulations for tens or hundreds of hours. A reliable machine with a 10% speed advantage will save you five weeks per year. Most researchers doing this simulations cost $200-$300K per year for salaries, equipment and overhead. A 10% percent productivity increase here can be worth $20,000 per year or more. This is not the case for the home user or game player however. Kryotech beer cans, if reliable, can be valuable.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (76955)	10/26/1999 9:20:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572776

Re: "I agree, AJ, with everything you say. I just feel that if I buy a new system that's going to be obsolete in about a week anyway, I want a system that doesn't have a big and bulky refridgeration unit on it." At least you could use the refrigeration unit to cool your beer, as you point out earlier. Or, since the Athlon is at the beginning of its development, maybe you could use the refrigerator to house a newer, faster motherboard/cpu when it becomes available. Moore's law is most applicable to CPUs. Next maybe graphics cards, the motherboards/chipsets and memory, then maybe storage (hard drives--the size gets bigger but the speed doesn't change that much). Stuff like monitors, keyboards, and cases don't get obsolesced quite as quickly. That's why I spent $2000 four years ago to buy a nice 21" CAD monitor--I knew i wouldn't have to replace it for a LONG time. So where would you prefer to spend your $$--on an Intel motherboard that will be out of date in three months, or a Kryotech case that might actually last you a couple processor generations? Kevin