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To: Paul Engel who wrote (123792)	12/29/2000 1:23:45 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: You're a dreamer Yes, this SiS 730s system I'm posting from is a real dream. Of course, for Intel, it's more of a nightmare. The screwdriver shop I bought it from is a small volume storefront operation. After I bought mine, a friend of mine called them and was told they had 8 more coming the next week, and he bought one (and his experience has been as good as mine was). I called them yesterday to ask about another one for someone else and was told they've sold what they received, their next shipment is spoken for, and they are now back ordered on these boards until mid January. Looks like somebody's selling Duron / Athlon computers, however many Celerons and P3s may be collecting dust on the shelves. Did you see that Asus has announced their 730s based board? But it won't be available at retail for awhile. I wonder what OEM is taking all the current production and what class system it's going into? Is it that AMD dream / Intel nightmare of corporate desktop with an AMD CPU? Sleep well, Dan

To: Paul Engel who wrote (123792)	12/29/2000 10:17:44 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 186894

There is a flaw in the support chips for the Intel Pentium 4 that impacts system performance in some circumstances, the CRN Test Center has discovered.... When asked if streaming other high-bandwidth data types on the PCI bus, such as between SCSI cards, might also inspire system latency, Intel indicated that bus mastering devices would not be subject to the problem. However, the Test Center has done the same DVD test on older, slower Intel-based systems without any dropouts. That would indicate the latency introduced is significant enough to allow Pentium III architecture to outperform the Pentium 4 architecture for at least this form of DVD playback. techweb.com -- Carl Message 15094857