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To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (67309)	1/7/2002 12:56:34 PM
From: peter_luc	Respond to of 275872

Andreas, "Athlon XP 2000+ PC from Vobis for only 999 Euro" Great news, thanks for the info! That's indeed a good start for the Athlon 2000+. Volumes must be pretty high. Peter

To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (67309)	1/7/2002 2:27:31 PM
From: peter_luc	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Andreas, very interesting conclusion by ZDNet.de See zdnet.de (in German) Let me translate one part of it: "While the P4 with Rambus only looses by the extremely small margin of 9:10 in our benchmarks against the Athlon XP 2000+ the same chip gets clearly defeated by 3:16 when coupled with DDR memory. Only with very well optimized software (DroneZ, Adobe Acrobat Reader and Macromedia Shockwave) the P4 2200 is able to win against the Athlon XP 2000+ even when equipped with DDR memory." Peter

To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (67309)	1/8/2002 1:07:10 PM
From: Harvey Allen	Respond to of 275872

SiS740 Based Mainboard from ECS Posted 1/07/02 at 7:03 pm by Rat Elitegroup, which is a close partner of some "alternative" chipset manufacturers, announced today a new mainboard based on the fresh Socket A integrated solution from SiS supporting DDR SDRAM: SiS740. We could have called this mainboard the world’s first solution based on this chipset, if Elitegroup hadn’t been so fast: a little bit before that PC Chips, which is a part of Elitegroup, actually, announced a similar solution (see here). And now a few more words about the novelty from ECS. The mainboard on SiS740 is called L7SOM. It is designed in MicroATX form-factor and supports all Socket A CPUs. The mainboard has a built-in SiS315 graphics core, which means that L7SOM will become a low-cost integrated solution with hardware T&L unit onboard. Of course, ECS L7SOM will not be able to compete with nForce based mainboards, but we shouldn’t forget then that it will be twice as cheap as nForce based solutions. ECS L7SOM The mainboard will be equipped with 2 184-pin DIMM slots for PC2100/PC1600 DDR SDRAM. Also there will be 3 PCI slots, a CNR slot and an integrated Realtek PCI network controller. the board will also support AC’97 sound, 2 USB ports and some opportunities for successful CPU overclocking. Note that L7SOM will have no AGP slot. xbitlabs.com Looks to be K7S5A with onboard 4x AGP and without SDRAM DIMM capability. ECS release: ecsusa.com