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To: kash johal who wrote (91898)	2/7/2000 2:51:00 PM
From: Hans de Vries	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576012

Kash Re:"kx133 chipset" Again it shows that PC133 with CL3 is not much better then PC100 with CL2. The access to the first data from SDRAM to chipset is both 20 ns so the first of the four 64 bit words of a cache line can never arrive earlier on the Athlon. Probably only the 3rd or 4th word will arrive sooner because there is also the issue of going from the 133 MHz SDRAM clock domain to the 100 MHz DDR (200 MHz) Front Side Bus clock domain. So: Only KX133 combined with CAS Latency 2, SDRAM makes a real difference. Having the FSB running at 133 MHz DDR (266 MHz) would streamline communication and help a lot also. Hans.

To: kash johal who wrote (91898)	2/7/2000 7:34:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576012

Re: Now we are left with an OK offering from VIA... I agree that the performance is not overwhelming, but it should be less expensive, both to buy and to build boards for. It also includes all of the bells and whistles that are so important for marketing (AGP 4x, 133MHZ, etc.) so overall I think it will be fine. I'm almost relieved that it doesn't blow away the 750. For our own use internally, I'll just keep specing MSI 6167s for the time being - we know them, we've never had a single problem with any of them, so why change for a 3% improvement? Regards, Dan