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To: Estephen who wrote (48028)	7/27/2000 6:54:33 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi Estephen! If Intel announced that RDRAM was going to no longer be supported by them, I bet the price of RIMMs would immediately drop drastically! Customers would quit buying them, and then they would be available for half price or even lower!! That might get them as cheap as SDRAM! That would get customers to buy them! -- Carl

To: Estephen who wrote (48028)	7/27/2000 9:27:45 PM
From: SBHX	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Estephen, Ahhm, the PC133-SDR chipset is already out, not by intel, but by via. The Apollo Pro 133A I've been using two for almost 3 wks now with the two new PII 733MHz socket370's to upgrade my kids' P55s. They were built in a clone shop and contain the following MB. asus.com I would have liked an i815 instead, but the clone store owner assured me that the chipset is reliable and is their best selling one, the 440BX will not support the 133Mhz FSB, but this one does. There are lots of cheaper MBs with the same chipset, but I settled on the asus one just for the peace of mind. I'm still upset that the PC133 SDR dimms were actually 8ns instead of 7 and they ran the CAS latency 3 clocks instead of 2. Sleazy. If I didn't open the case to put in an extra DVD rom drive, I wouldn't have noticed it. PC133? Not quite. It sells well in canada, don't know about the US. Here's a couple of reviews of MBs using the chipset. tomshardware.com anandtech.com Normally, ever since the Pentium socket7 and PII slot1 MBs, I've stayed away from non intel system chipsets, but this time, I think they actually worked well. If you believe all the clone makers out there, they are shipping all their 133MHz FSB PentiumIIs with this chipset, instead of i820, but noname clone buyers can't afford RDR anyway. Everyday that the i815 does not ship in volume is a day that this chipset will grab mkt share, but I'm surprised that none of the two has crashed yet, since I half expected non-intel chipsets to have reliability problems, maybe I'm wrong. sbh

To: Estephen who wrote (48028)	7/27/2001 9:54:55 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 93625

Hi Estephen; One year ago today, you wrote: "One things for sure, the closer it gets (2half 2001) to the release of a pc133 or ddr chip set for willie, the faster rdram prices will drop. If a pc133 chip set for williamett came out next week, You would see samsung drop the price of rdram by 150% over night !! Probably to within 5% of pc133." #reply-14121210 Now we're on the verge of the PC133 chipset for the P4 coming out. Do you think that Samsung will drop the price of RDRAM by "150%" over night? And anyway, if they dropped it by 150%, wouldn't that mean they'd be selling it for a negative price? -- Carl