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To: combjelly who wrote (72136)	2/21/2002 12:32:56 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"There is no reason why the MCP from the nVidia chipset cannot be used..." There are reasons. Plenty. Keep in mind that the HT is a fairly fast connection, similar but twice as fast as EV6 in Athlons to start with. If the history is of any indication, AMD has had serious troubles in connecting their own CPU with their own North Bridge, they have to change slot pinouts, type of termination, etc. etc, and still it frequently did not boot when cold. Same problems happened when connecting to first VIA chipsets. Now you are talking about connecting API chips with AMD chips with nVidia... Unless AMD has gained positive experience or acquired people experienced in high-speed board design (some RAMBUS people?<g>), I fully expect "instabilities" in new platform for a serious while. Not talking about "glitches" in brand new USB2, UDMA-133, 6-channel AC'97, and not-yet-finalized AGP3 <ggg>. - Ali