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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (90883)	2/1/2000 9:48:00 PM
From: crazyoldman	Respond to of 1572310

Hello Jim, It appears that the KX133 performance is still up in the air (unknown). The following from AMD Zone amdzone.pcstats.com message boards (interesting mention about microsoft): "the board is an engineering sample from via. it was made by them for testing for companies. it is not a released product. i am also not sure whether this will be the same revision of the chipset as will be shipped with the final product. for an engineering sample, things could of been a lot worse. also, the numbers there are agp 2x. not 4x. those will come later. one thing i was happy with was that agp 2x was enabled with the 3.62 drivers. there was no tweaking to be done. that alone makes it seem worth it to me. also i expect the via chipset to probably cost a bit less than the amd 751. also, the first board i recieved was damaged, and would not display video, it came all the way from taiwan so that can be expected. i recieved this board yesterday, and thankfully it worked, with so far one problem that i was able to work around. that explains why you don't see more tests. i was slated to get a replacement sooner, but microsoft grabbed all of the boards they had up. via has been very helpful, i talked to the engineer that set up the board, but we were unable to get video output. kind of hard to do much benchbenchmarking without video. Message edited by: ruiner on 02/01/2000 13:38:10" Kindest regards, CrazyMan