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To: Bilow who wrote (42796)	5/22/2000 6:42:00 PM
From: Harvey Allen	Respond to of 93625

Bilow- Both the i820 and Via 133 allow you to disconnect the CPU bus speed and the memory bus speed. So you could run FSB 133 CPU with PC100 memory or FSB 100 CPU with either PC66 or PC133 memory. I have never run across a BX board that would let me do that. Best price performance so far has been Pentium II 350 running @ 3.5 X 150MHz = 525MHz with PC100 memory. Gives a good run to a PIII 450 running @ 4.5 X 133MHz = 600MHz with the same PC100 memory. They both have the same 250MHz 4ns L2 cache but PII 350's sell for about $90 while PIII 450's are twice that. I'm still lurking eBay watching RDIMM prices. I think Intel's right about 800MHz being the point where SDRAM falls away. Price isn't all that bad. I remember paying $500. for a 16MB parity SIMM back in 1995. Harvey