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To: Guy Peter Cordaro who wrote (36060)	12/29/1999 1:48:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 93625

Guy, re:<they still used the MOBO'S with two rdram chips in them> That's not the only thing they changed on the i820 motherboards! They had to slow down the timing. Read the review of the i840 chipset at tomshardware.com tomshardware.com For some reason the performance of those nowadays obsolete platforms [the 3-RIMM i820 boards] 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. If you look at the performance charts, i820 with 800 MHz RAMBUS loses to PC100 SDRAM using a Coppermine 750 in Business Winstone 98, Business Winstone NT, and High End Business Winstone 98, and even in applications like Adobe Photoshop. Here's the conclusion about the i820 at the end of the review: BX is as fast as, actually even a tad faster than i820. Why would anyone be interested in this chipset? So, the i820 is a bad chipset for RDRAM, a complete disaster of a product. You are aware, I hope, that most i820 systems use SDRAM with the MTH chips. The i840 is a good chip according to the same review above and makes RDRAM worthwhile for certain applications. But its a dual-CPU chipset, the OR840 motherboard is still not available, and it will cost OEM's $200 more than an SDRAM-based motherboard. Petz