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To: Paul Engel who wrote (104820)	6/24/2000 2:32:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, A higher performance chip set for Only-Speed-Is-Important applications needs to receive its own market segment - 820, 840, etc.. I haven't seen any indication that 820/DRDRAM systems benchmark any faster than 815/SDRAM systems. Overclocked BX systems run much faster than 820 systems. Is this a case of "The emperors (expensive) new clothes"? Scumbria

To: Paul Engel who wrote (104820)	6/24/2000 2:55:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Taiwan MB manufacturers rapidly adopted the cheaper VIA PC133 chip set (let's call it Cheap Set, OK?) even though the performance of such systems lagged those of Intel 440BX-PC100 SDRAM based systems. On top of that, all of Intel's recent chipsets have supported their unique intermittent data-corruption functions. Now how much will you pay? :-) Dan PS - So far, it seems that the patented Intel data corruption features are missing from the 815 - was this an economy move?