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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (82823)	12/13/1999 6:06:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1571405

DFI (Diamond Flower Industries) announces new Athlon 4 layer Athlon motherboard using AMD 750 chipset. This should lower prices as 4 layer is cheaper to make than 6 layer? aceshardware.com "DFI's New Athlon Motherboard (AMD) Posted By Brian Neal Monday, December 13, 1999 - 3:36:18 PM FullOn3D has a press release up from DFI regarding their new Athlon motherboard. It's always good news to see more of these: DFI AK70 in ATX form factor is based on AMD 750 chipsets for all-speed, full-line Athlon CPUs. This model is equipped with three DIMM sockets, which enable the main memory capacity get to 768MB. Besides, model AK70 features one AGP slot, five PCI slots and the ATA/66 hard disk. All these complete the requirements of system expandability. [...] The secret to the reasonable price offered by AK70 is the in-built four-layer PC board instead of six. This intelligent design, differently from other manufacturers', impressively reduces the purchasing costs for power users. DFI AK70 is indeed the “best-performance-affordable-price” K7 motherboard a high-end consumer can find in market nowadays. " Might as well throw in these SPEC scores for my buddy Elmer. aceshardware.com ..................PIII-733...Athlon-800 SPECfp_base95......18.0 .......25.1 SPECint_base95.....31.5........35.0

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (82823)	12/13/1999 6:22:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571405

Thought I'd throw this one in for all the RAMBUS fans... DFIs new KX133 board. "DFI's VIA 133A board \| jonhou \| Monday 06:37 EST Here is a clip from the Press Release: fullon3d.com DFI TA64 motherboard with VIA PRO 133A (694X) chipsets will absolutely dominate PC 133 SDRAM trend in the year 2000! DFI TA64, in the same token, is honored as the most-flexible, highest-performance motherboard in current market. Regardless of Slot 1 based P-II and P-III, or Socket 370 based Celeron processors, the TA64 supports them all. Ever since Intel's decision on changing all P-III processors to Socket 370 with the latest Flip-Chip technology and FCPGA package, DFI has predicted a crucial transition time starting next year. As a result, DFI, in lead of the industry, pioneered and manufactured model TA64 for both Slot 1 and Socket 370 processors. This major step from DFI eliminates all possible complications and concerns on present and future system upgrade and expansion. The TA64 is a well-design board in-built with four DIMM sockets in ATX format. It supports PC66, PC100 or PC133 SDRAM. Besides, the model holds one AGP slot for both 2X and 4X AGP; four PCI slots; and another spare slot for either PCI or ISA. Last but not least, DFI TA64 supports ATA/66 IDE interface." ---I like the part about 133 Mhz SDRAM dominating next year. Heck I thought RAMBUS wuz gonna do that...<G>

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (82823)	12/13/1999 6:59:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571405

Pravin, <Anyone have an educated guess on how much faster KX133 based Athlon boards will be than current boards?> My guess is that there won't be much of an improvement, considering that Via's chipsets typically aren't so hot performance-wise. Tenchusatsu