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To: Process Boy who wrote (80309)	5/1/1999 11:22:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

PB, They way the retail boxmakers are going, the Whitney should be a winner. IMHO. Not sure what this brings to Intels bottom line because these mobos will likely be coupled with Celerons but Intel really had no choice but to create this chipset. Certainly a Celeron and Whitney Mobo will make a nice computer for the masses. Cyrixs integrated system, particularly the PCOAC, could take the lower end but these likely won't scale like the Celeron. Cyrix has pi$$ed away a two year lead as well. Jim

To: Process Boy who wrote (80309)	5/1/1999 5:17:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 186894

Another snippet from Herr Uberclockermeister's review of the 810 Whitney chipset: www6.tomshardware.com Most of us believed that 'Whitney' would be 'ZX plus i740', but this is certainly not the case. I've already explained the hub architecture and now I'll try and say some words about the 2D/3D graphics part. We were told that i810 is actually equipped with the core of Intel's upcoming low/mid end graphics chip i752, the long overdue successor of i740. There's not much that I can tell you about this chip, except that it's also using a dual rendering pipeline and that its performance will be somewhere around TNT. This is all not really exciting, but it means that i810 is the first chipset with integrated 2D/3D-accelerator that has two rendering pipelines and could thus offer some pretty decent 3D-performance. Hold it, I am not saying that any 3D-gamer will be satisfied by this chipset, but people who want a low-cost system don't have to refrain from the occasional 3D-games anymore. We are currently testing i810-motherboards in our Californian lab, and the 3D-performance we see is surprisingly good. Remember that the Riva TNT is currently the best-selling AGP graphics card out there. If it's true that the 810 Whitney chipset delivers comparable performance to the TNT, that means that Intel can bring mainstream 3D performance down to the level of E-Machine prices. So Whitney not only lowers the cost of PC's due to integration, but also raises the standard of performance even in the low-end arena. This Whitney chipset sounds like a winner. Tenchusatsu