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To: Maxwell who wrote (30154)	3/24/1998 11:32:00 AM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570818

Maxwell it might be a good name for Covington. Intel likes to refer to their chips as flagship of one sort or another. Covington is a flopship of Intel Regards -Albert

To: Maxwell who wrote (30154)	3/24/1998 3:29:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570818

Maxwell, RE: <The Covington is going to be a flop for Intel> Because of poor cacheless benchmark performance, Intel will try like crazy to have magazines review only systems which include the "optional" L2 cache on the mobo. At first Dell and Compaq will try to get $50 for the L2 cache module, but that will stop when 2nd tier makers include it and jack up the price $10-$20. What's to prevent AMD from making Covington-like CPU's, anything? I'm not sure Intel's patents protect them from clones in this area. These clone chips could plug right in to EX chipset mobo's. Just a thought. Apparently the EX chipset for Covington will only allow 3 PCI slots. Thats will leave no expansion capability on multimedia systems with video, DVD card and sound card. (ISA sound is rapidly disappearing) Petz