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To: Jdaasoc who wrote (43474)	6/5/2000 7:33:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 93625

John, <I do believe that Thunderbird with SDRAM is a price/performance killer for Intel's 820 or 840 chipsets with RDRAM and PIII until Willimette comes out or INtel lowers prices.> Actually, you might want to wait until Intel's 815 chipset is released before judging Thunderbird as a "price/performance killer." One thing is for certain, however. Thunderbird failed to meet the expectations of the AMD supporters as a pure performance killer. Most of those supporters are now falling back on the old "superior price/performance" advantage, which the old Athlon already had anyway. Some are claiming that T-bird's performance will improve substantially once it is paired up with DDR SDRAM. That's probably true; however, DDR chipsets for Athlon won't arrive until Q4 at the earliest. By then, Willamette will be here, and the AMD supporters will once again fall back on "superior price/performance." Tenchusatsu P.S. - I don't mean to trivialize the price/performance ratio. I realize it's a very favorable advantage to have. But I think it's pointless to talk about RDRAM in a price/performance sense right now. There really is no debate: RDRAM prices need to come down before RDRAM-based PCs have any hope of penetrating the mainstream.