Hobit
01-26-2002, 11:57 PM
Forum members and other indifferent souls,
Intella Rant:
Yup, for more years than I care to remember, from 4.77 MHz through 800 MHz we cohabited, but now it’s over. My next computer will be an AMD. It isn’t Intella’s lackluster IPC, their constantly changing number of pins, differing cores, or even their lousy cost-performance ratio that has brought me to this point. The camel’s back breaker, the ever lastingly, absolute, final last straw is is the recently announced cheaper version of the 815EP step B chipset which actually removes DDR RAM support. This is the chipset that initiated Intella’s DDR support after the dismal marketing failures of the 810 and 820 chipsets. Vendors can’t give away 810 motherboards that support only SDRAM or 820 motherboards that attempted to cram proprietary RIM RAM down consumers’ throats.
Rants aside, in November without seriously exploring alternatives I built two 800 MHz systems on Apollo Pro chipset motherboards for my grand children who are homeschooled. I now regret that I did not explore AMD as an alternative, primarily because AMD (Slot A) systems seem to offer a far better CPU, upgrade path.
hobit
Intella Rant:
Yup, for more years than I care to remember, from 4.77 MHz through 800 MHz we cohabited, but now it’s over. My next computer will be an AMD. It isn’t Intella’s lackluster IPC, their constantly changing number of pins, differing cores, or even their lousy cost-performance ratio that has brought me to this point. The camel’s back breaker, the ever lastingly, absolute, final last straw is is the recently announced cheaper version of the 815EP step B chipset which actually removes DDR RAM support. This is the chipset that initiated Intella’s DDR support after the dismal marketing failures of the 810 and 820 chipsets. Vendors can’t give away 810 motherboards that support only SDRAM or 820 motherboards that attempted to cram proprietary RIM RAM down consumers’ throats.
Rants aside, in November without seriously exploring alternatives I built two 800 MHz systems on Apollo Pro chipset motherboards for my grand children who are homeschooled. I now regret that I did not explore AMD as an alternative, primarily because AMD (Slot A) systems seem to offer a far better CPU, upgrade path.
hobit