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To: Paul Engel who wrote (48296)	2/20/1998 8:22:00 PM
From: Joseph J Randazzo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

FWIW Prices to resellers indicate strong demand for Pentium chips going into older motherboards as upgrades. This can't be hurting Intel's ability to maintain margins on their older designs where they would have extremely good yield. On the other hand I just bought a pII 233 for $319. I wound up spending $ 1500 to put together a pII 233 with 64 mb SDRAM, 5 gig Western Digital HD, 56k modem, 32x cd-rom, agp 8meg 3d video, with 17" monitor with 2 usb ports on the motherboard. How can you beat that? Joey R

To: Paul Engel who wrote (48296)	2/20/1998 8:46:00 PM
From: Shahen Petrosian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Hi Paul, I'm real happy to see that Intel has decided to stick to slot 1 in the sub 1000 PCs with Covington. For a while there, according to some of the web links provided on this thread, it seemed like they (Intel) were considering cheaper alternatives. My question is, will a sub1000 buyer be able to upgrade from a Covington to more powerful PIIs easily? If so, there are great benefits in choosing the Covington over its socket 7 competitions. Thanks in advance, Shahen Petrosian. P.S. Enjoying the INTC momentum these days. Thanks for your posts, helped me keep cool when the chips were down.