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To: richard surckla who wrote (36193)	1/4/2000 1:11:00 AM
From: Jdaasoc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

richard: This is Intel's response to a customer asking when OR840 will be available. The prophetic that the title of the forum is "New motherboard rant". Ron K - 07:20pm Jan 3, 2000 GMT Hello Jeff. Thank you for your post. As a general corporate policy the technical support staff does not comment on unannounced Intel(R) products, future technologies or technology trends in the forums. Likewise Intel Corporation does not comment on product(s) from competitors, give buying recommendations, or opinions on other companies? products. When new technologies are released, information concerning them can be accessed through URL developer.intel.com Jeff wrote: > Hey Hans, > > I have a Pentium III 500 and am happy with this level of performance, for > now. I think that would be a great board on my next major upgrade. > However, I am just looking to spend around a $100 more on this system to get > it up to, what I feel, it's maximum performance and usability potential. > > I have heard of an upcoming chipset called i815. From what I have read, it > will offer what I need, except it will incorporate the built-in video. The > only potential problem that I can see is that, it will have a AGP 4x slot > that is also a built-in video memory slot. Supposedly you can add > additional video memory or a new video adapter. I have also seen where it > is to be released early January or end of the 1st quarter 2000. Do you or > anyone else know what the real target for release is? > > JP > > "Hans Hansen" <Hans399@ynn.com> wrote in message > news:386EEF7A.30AAB995@ynn.com... > Hi Jeff, > > None of the current i8xx series chip sets except the i810/E is designed > to work with the SDRAM. As for your next mobo/dream board... I think > if you look at the OR840 you'll see that it has the PCI slots you need > and enough upgradable performance to last thru the end of the month. > developer.intel.design > The OR840 and PC800 RIMMs is an awesome system... in spite of what > the review on TomsHardware says... I feel that it was not tested > correctly. > > Hans -- Regards Ron K Intel Technical Support *All other brands and names are property of their respective owners.