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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (104252)	6/8/2000 8:11:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Ten, thanks for getting back. >Elmer is right, in my opinion. Intel's mistake isn't necessarily supporting RDRAM in the first place. Intel's mistake was not having an alternative SDRAM platform available. That should be fixed once the 815E chipset is launched this month. Now, tell me again. What processors will use the 815E chipset? Does it have native support for SDRAM (no MTH)? While I'm here, again on Willamette, it sounds like, to this point, we don't know of any non-Rambus DRAM support. Is that right? I need to visit the Intel roadmap website soon, see what's there. Thanks, Tony

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (104252)	6/9/2000 2:50:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tenchusatsu, Most of the performance benchmark comparisons out there pair up the GHz Pentium III with an 820/RDRAM platform. Meanwhile, the Athlon is still stuck with PC133 SDRAM. I think Tony was talking more in terms of practical use than the theoretical < 1% lead of one processor over another. If you upgrade to 1 GHz CPU, be it Intel or AMD, you will get a lot more powerful machine (maybe 100% faster) than what you currently have, and the +/- 1% is not going to make than much difference, except some bragging rights. Intel's mistake isn't necessarily supporting RDRAM in the first place. Intel's mistake was not having an alternative SDRAM platform available. I don't know which memory standard will win eventually, but I think the mistake Intel made was to commit to Rambus too early, before Rambus was ready for prime time. I think Intel should have waited for Rambus to prove itself in other devices, before bringing it to main memory of a PC. Joe