Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 04:22:30 03/09/00
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On March 09, 2000 at 00:08:10, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On March 08, 2000 at 23:19:03, Laurence Chen wrote: > >>On March 08, 2000 at 22:59:43, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote: >> >>>- Pentium III or Athlon? >>>- Win9x or WinNT/2000? >>> >>>A. Ponti >>Go for the Pentium III Coppermine if one can afford the $PRICE$ or has a lot of >>$$$$ money to burn because the RDRAM is very very very expensive. With that in > >You can get Coppermines without RDRAM. And for a chess program, RDRAM may be >worse than SDRAM, because of higher latency. Have you read the reviews of the RDRAM, it is much superior to SDRAM when used with an i840 chipset or i820 chipset. Intel is also doing what Microsoft is doing for NT 4.0, it's stopping making i440Bx chipset so as to make manufacturers to make i820 and i840 motherboards, and the consumer won't have much of choice but to buy these chipsets once the i440BX sells out. And SDRAM does not run well with i820 nor i840 chipsets. The coppermine is better than the regular Pentium III, but the i440BX can only support up to 600 MHz or 700 MHz, depending on the motherboard one buys. I personally would stay away from VIA 133A chipset. Laurence
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