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To: Zardoz who wrote (10101)	1/30/2000 10:04:00 PM
From: wily	Respond to of 14778

I heard some discussion -- I think it was on the AMD thread -- that the VIA chipset makes the memory bus independent of the CPU bus. This may explain the discrepancy. Not sure. wily

To: Zardoz who wrote (10101)	1/30/2000 11:22:00 PM
From: Dave Bissett	Respond to of 14778

Here are 2 reviews of the Asus P3C2000 ... ixbt-labs.com firingsquad.com Apparently the board will only support PC100 SDRAM and performance takes a hit because of the use of the memory hub to get it to do this. This is consistent with what I've read of using PC100 with the 820i chipset in general...my overall impression of these boards is that they are a real design compromise due to the price of RAMBUS parts and not a good solution. Your choice of the P3V4X is likely the better one. I say so only because of it's VIA chipset. I haven't seen a review of it anywhere but from what I have read boards using this chipset offer the best alternative on the market today for a system to operate at 133+ FSB speeds with PC133 SDRAM due to the presence of the 1/2 speed AGP setting which BX boards don't offer. It's likely overclockable too (I don't know why it wouldn't be) but I don't know what FSB choices it offers or anything about it's stability or voltage settings. Voltage tweaking may not be an issue tho since guys reporting on OC'ing the FCPGA chips are getting outstanding speed at standard voltage. Dave