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To: Petz who wrote (94279)	2/19/2000 9:21:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573433

Re: "ELmer, this Intel server bug story came out after the close Friday. Was this problem reported before the close?" I think this is the third time I have seen this story in the last 2 weeks. It's old news. EP

To: Petz who wrote (94279)	2/20/2000 9:18:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1573433

This story has me scratching my head about Rambus once more. Now, it turns out that not only is the SDRAM solution for the 820/840 slow, it's not exactly clear if it works. Why doesn't Intel do an updated BX chipset for PC133? As near as I can tell, the BX, in its present form, is still close to the best thing out there. Intel must have some similar feelings internally, since the champion cumine SPECint95 (which is actually of course SPECint_base95) that Elmer is so proud of was from a BX board. The engineering needed to bring the (2 year?) old BX up to PC133 and 133mhz fsb must be fairly minimal, compared to all the Rambus travail. Given Intel's traditional headroom on clocking, probably 50% of what's shipping now would do 133 pretty reliably. And it would probably be a killer, perf wise. All I can figure is that Intel is highly devoted to Rambus for marchitectural reasons, as the Register would say. Or maybe they're just doing AMD a favor, to make up for the pain that the local representatives of the company are causing here. Aside: is ServerWorks what used to be RCC? Cheers, Dan.