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To: bacchus_ii who wrote (30088)	3/2/2001 2:47:29 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Pentium III to fade from desktops news.cnet.com Meanwhile, on the competitive front, it's still "damn the torpedoes" time. The Pentium III will fade out of desktops this year, an accelerated exit that could rearrange the chessboard in the processor world. Although the chip will continue to appear in notebooks and low-end servers, the Pentium III will essentially be phased out of the desktop market by the end of the year, said Anand Chandrasekher, vice president of microprocessor marketing at Intel. A new version of the Pentium III, based on the 0.13-micron manufacturing process and code-named Tualatin, is still coming out toward the third quarter, but it won't be actively marketed for desktops. The competitive analysis part: Then again, Intel's strategy could blow up in its face and open an opportunity for Advanced Micro Devices to finally get into the corporate market. The potential hitch is related to chip designer Rambus. Currently, Pentium 4 computers need to incorporate Rambus memory. Not only is Rambus memory more expensive than other types of memory, but corporate buyers still recall problems in 1999 when Pentium III computers were recalled or delayed because of problems that somehow were always related to Rambus. Chipsets that allow computer makers to build Pentium 4 computers sans Rambus are coming toward the midyear. And prices for Rambus memory are going down. Still, memories are long in the corporate world. "The corporate IT Nazis are absolute fanatics about having a solid, reliable platform," McCarron said. "The experience with the 820 chipset (Intel's Rambus chipset in 1999) put a lot of them off on pushing Rambus in the corporate market." This "certainly helps" AMD, he added.

To: bacchus_ii who wrote (30088)	3/2/2001 5:07:39 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Gottfried, Re: Not to brag anyone but with a 1.2@1.41 FSB 148(note sure if I still can go that fast), with KT7A-RAID, PC150 cas3 running at cas2, I got 618/687. Wow, that's extremely impressive. Do you have an idea why PC133 running as PC150 is as fast as PC1600 (PC200)? I think it's probably because the KT133A boards are more "tweaked" than the AMD760 (e.g. memory interleaving). I noticed e.g. that going from BIOS version 1.001 to 1.003 with the A7V133 gave me a 10% performance boost in Sandra. Andreas