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To: Petz who wrote (83162)	12/15/1999 5:15:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570834

RE:"http://www.intel.com/procs/perf/PentiumIII_840/brief/tables.htm#appa NOT! Just looking at the URL I could tell this was another i840 benchmark with RDRAM. The benchmark results say it was done with a pre-release OR840 motherboard. Why? Possibly because the released boards are SLOWER, like the released i820 boards?" Here is a little quiz for anyone.... Why is it that the i840 mobos can handle four RIMM slots and the i820s but only two? Jim

To: Petz who wrote (83162)	12/15/1999 6:48:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570834

Petz, <Possibly because the released boards are SLOWER, like the released i820 boards?> I guess there were some configuration tweaks like more frequent thermal recalibration on RAMBUST in attempt to make it work stable, hence performance suffers. www2.tomshardware.com "Quite a while ago and still prior to i820's final release we received i820-motherboards from Intel that came with the initial three RIMM-slots. For some reason the performance of those nowadays obsolete platforms was significantly better than the new crop of the official i820-boards with only 2 RIMM-slots. As a matter of fact the new i820-motherboards score worse than BX in several NT-benchmarks, as you will see later. This is not an issue with the Asus P3C alone, all the other i820-boards we tested scored just as bad. Unfortunately Intel was unable to give us one of their new boards with only 2 RIMM-slots, so that we couldn't see if the performance of those boards dropped as well. My experience tells me however, that Intel-motherboards have never performed better than Taiwanese ones; usually the Intel-product was a bit slower. It would be very surprising if that should have changed with the release of i820." Regards, - Ali