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To: Paul Engel who wrote (62181)	8/9/1998 4:17:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "Intel IS SHIPPING 400 MHz Xeons and 450NX chip sets 4-way SMP Servers running at 400 MHz. Intel WILL SHIP 450 MHz Xeons and 440 GX chip sets for workstations and 2-WAY SMP Servers. By the way - the 440 GX - and it's "little" cousin, the 440 BX - look really solid. I think Intel had a very different design and development team do the 440 BX/GX than the 450 NX design team." Thanks for the explanation Paul, that 440BX/GX team must sure be sharp. As for the 450mhz Xeon processor/chipset combo, I believe the ECC in question is on the processor card, so I suspect the design issues are more processor related than chipset. I still can't figure out what the difference would be to the chipset if the processor was 400 or 450mhz.If the bus speed is identical(is it?), the chipset couldn't see any difference. Oh well, perhaps we'll get a official Intel explanation before long that will clear things up. EP