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To: PMS Witch who wrote (146225)	11/1/1999 10:49:00 AM
From: John Koligman	Respond to of 176387

'Enhanced'. A way to diffentiate these processors from the older PIII's. Key difference is that this MPU has a 256k full speed cache, while older PIII's had a 512k half speed cache. Cache is 'on die' for the 'e' MPU's. I believe these chips are also built using the new .18 process, older PIII's were built on the .25 process for desktop chips. Basically the next step up in performance. The faster versions of these new Coppermines were to be shipped with the 820 motherboard, which enabled RDRAM and 4X AGP. That's why you see Dell ads in the PC rags and it's own catalogs with RDRAM equipped systems advertised. Needless to say, since the motherboard has been delayed, all you can buy now are the MPU's... Regards, John PS - Coppermine was an Intel 'codename' for this new MPU series. You can find out much more on the Intel website or by reading the Intel thread.