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To: FJB who wrote (112909)	5/26/2000 1:34:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1572207

Bob, I think there were some "issues" with the Via drivers. I think they were fixed recently. Tom Pabst had some articles about it. I think you will have the same problems on the Intel side. The problem is that the choice of the motherboards / chipsets sucks. On the Intel side, you can go with old BX board, most of which are missing some neat new features (PC-133 memory, 133 MHz FSB, UDMA-66 etc.) 810 sucks, 820 sucks ^ 2, 815 is not out yet, Via is flaky. Another issue is that both Intel and AMD are moving back to socket, and the support for socket CPUs is still limited on the Intel side. Since there is almost no premium for the 133 MHz bus, it would be a good idea to get it, but here again, I am not eve sure if there are any FC-PGA motherboards that support 133 MHz bus. I think it is worth-while to wait for the next generation of chipsets, if you are not under any time pressure. You will get ATA-100, which will give you some headroom, since at the pace the hard drive makers go, they will be able to saturate the 66 MB/s bus shortly with the sustain data trasfer. You will get USB 2.0, from which I expect one thing: I hope it will finally work. Another neat feature will be DDR memory. I am hoping that the AMD 760 chipset will be solid, and probably get a computer based on that platform. I still have one Cyrix based computer, which my wife uses, and it has only 64MB of memory, and it could use a lot more. I will be upgrading that one next. Joe