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To: Bert Herman who wrote (117918)	6/27/2000 6:11:00 PM
From: Gopher Broke	Respond to of 1573682

Anand has posted a review of 815 chipset. Basically - the onboard graphics sucks, as expected, and has about 1/3 the 2D performance of an old TNT card - you can only populate 2 memory slots with 133 memory without getting problems (but the mobo forces the memory down to 100 MHz for you presumably so that most people won't notice) - performs slightly worse than overclocked BX in most cases and beats 820/RDRAM combination by a similar margin in most cases And his final comments... There is now no reason to even consider the i820 chipset. In the past there were some that could justify it by saying that they needed to have an Intel chipset and wanted 133MHz FSB support as well as the ability to use their own AGP cards, but now with the i815 chipset available there is no reason that the i820 should even garner any attention. Looking towards the future, VIA does have a DDR SDRAM solution coming for the Pentium III/Celeron, the Apollo Pro 2000 and unless they really screw something up it should easily outperform the 8 platforms we compared here today. At the same time, if you're planning on buying an Apollo Pro 2000 based motherboard, plan on waiting a little longer than it would take for you to go out and pick up an i815 board. Once again it comes down to whether you're willing to wait or you need to make the purchase soon. If the answer is soon then the i815 would probably be your best overall bet, if the answer is that you can wait then let's hope your current setup isn't too frustratingly slow.