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To: Goutam who wrote (109352)	5/4/2000 4:01:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578965

RE:"Surprisingly, the early mobo manufacturers like FIC, Microstar didn't release any KX133 based mobos yet." Maybe they knew something and were waiting for the KV-133. RE:"The KX133 mother boards are supposed to cost less than the ones based on the AMD reference design, but currently the Irongate mobos are the cheapest - mostly priced from $85 - $130." Some of the $ differences in Irongate boards are due to 4 layer vs 6 layer PCBs aren't they? Other boards as well but this criteria isn't totally consistent. Jim

To: Goutam who wrote (109352)	5/4/2000 4:06:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1578965

Goutama, re:<The KX133 mother boards are supposed to cost less than the ones based on the AMD reference design, but currently the Irongate mobos are the cheapest - mostly priced from $85 - $130.> Maybe at the last moment, VIA got greedy and raised the price of KX133. Or, suppliers cut back on KX133 mobo quantity because they knew the TBird problem, but consumers didn't, resulting in too much demand for too little product, and high prices. Petz