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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (80491)	5/22/2002 5:46:28 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 275872

they may have motherboards, but no one said that they would be in working order. Motherboard reference designs come early in the chipset design cycle... There was a news report that Asus, Gigabyte and another were going to publicly show working Clawhammers on their boards on June 3. Then the story changed that there would only be a demo of AMD's motherboard. (I'd like to read both reports again, but I couldn't find it using SI's meager search engine.) These boards are not reference designs, because the reference design would be made by the chipset manufacturers, especially AMD, not by the mobo companies. My impression was that they will have these boards out for display, but it's impossible to tell how many bugs are still in the chipset silicon, not to mention the board layout, BIOS, etc. True, but I think the real reason that AMD doesn't want the OEMs running stuff in public is that some benchmark results might leak out. This might result in negative publicity like some early Coppermine tests and Athlon tests. In the case of the Athlon, the FPU was still buggy. In any event, 4 months (early June to early October) is a lot of time to eliminate the kinds of bugs you mention. When the Athlon was released, about the only board available was an FIC SD11 board which was a virtual carbon copy of the AMD reference design. I think the mobo OEMs are already beyond that point now. Another reason (I hope not) may be that AMD has an exclusive deal to put their chipsets in one OEM's boards for a period of time, kind of like the deal that Tyan got w.r.t. the 760MP chipsets. Petz