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To: fyodor_ who wrote (64421)	11/27/2001 11:19:12 AM
From: Charles Gryba	Respond to of 275872

fyo, what I am trying to say that there will always be something intel chips are better at and that what's going to be pushed as the latest and greatest and most important thing a chip does. AMD will always end up having to play catch-up on that feature and by the time they do another feature will be the most important, etc, etc... C

To: fyodor_ who wrote (64421)	11/27/2001 11:43:30 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

ALi's latest chipset rocks. Review of IWill XP333-R motherboard at xbitlabs: 1. They managed to run it at 189MHz FSB(378MHz DDR), probably the limit of their memory 2. Overclockers dream (Vcore settings, 1 MHz steps, PCI divider up to 6, etc.) 3. Performance compared to VIA KT266A: Sysmark 2001: 1% slower Sysmark 2001 subtests- Internet CC: 1% faster, office 3% slower Winzip: 2% faster Flask encoding: 4% slower Quake 3: 1% slower Unreal Tournament: 2% slower Dronz: 2.5% slower Sciencemark: 0.5% slower Specviewperf Awadvs: 0.1% faster Specviewperf DRV07: 3% faster Specviewperf DX06: 0% Specviewperf Light04: 4% faster Specviewperf Medmcad01: 3% faster Specviewperf PROCDRS02: 0% As usual, the review site tries to skew the benchmarks against ALi, for example by comparing the fastest KT266A board they could find against the one and only ALi Magik 1 Rev C board. They complain about the lack of an FSB+33 MHz choice for the memory bus, which would presumably allow PC2700 memory use without overclocking, but I suspect that the extra memory bandwidth would be wasted on an asynchronous bus, resulting in little improvement. Maybe 166 MHz FSB is just around the corner for AMD CPUS's? Petz