i815, [was Re: i810]

[Bob Drzyzgula]

Interesting article re: The new Intel 815 chipset. It seems as if we may
finally have a real replacement for the 440BX; the motherboard manufacturers
seem to like everything but the price...

	http://www.ebnonline.com/digest/story/OEG20000623S0046

> apart from poor video performance which you probably don't care about on a
> cluster, there's nothing really wrong with the i810. the issues
> surrounding the i820/i840 involve the memory transfer hub for using sdram
> on the i820 being faulty, and the mrh for sdram on the 840 being lower
> performance than people expected. couple that with the early delay in
> delivery of the i820 because intel decided it didn't work that well with
> three rdram rim sockets, and thusly reduced the spec to two, causing a
> three month delay in the delivry of motherboards and you have the making
> of a debacle...
>
> regards
> joelja