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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (76979)	10/25/1999 11:47:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577191

Tench - RE: "As usual, I'm a fair guy, so I feel obligated to say that VIA's chipset did win in some benchmarks, but only by a small amount. The 820 won in other benchmarks, but once again only by a small amount, with the exception of the nice performance improvement in 3D Studio MAX." Do you expect the performance of DRDRAM to remain the same vs. VC SDRAM in the future, or is this a one-time occurence that VC SDRAM is competitive (like when the K6-2 300 was as fast as the PII 300 in Winstone 98)?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (76979)	10/26/1999 3:25:00 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577191

Tenchusatsu, just another VIA VC-133 vs. BX-100 comparison: In Maximum PC Magazine for November they reviewed the Micron Millenia with VC-133 (virtual channel SDRAM at 133 MHz). The previous month they had reviewed the same machine but with 100MHz FSB on the Intel BX chipset. The two machines benchmarked virtually identical in CPU tests. The new machine had GE Force 256 graphics (BX machine used NVidia TNT2 Ultra) so it scored higher on games, maybe a smidgeon of that had to do with AGP 4X, but CPU and business tests were a dead heat. Petz