VIA, I don’t know what it
stands for, and personally, I don’t think you care. Now that we have that out of the way, you might want to know
why I’m talking about VIA. Well,
I have a few good reasons.
- First
reason: They bought
Cyrix. - Second
reason: They make the Apollo Pro Plus 133 Chipset - Third
reason: Did I mention they bought Cyrix, and IDT’s
Winchip?
Okay, so now you
are probably thinking “So what? They bought two companies Intel murdered, and they are trying
to sell a rival chipset to the i820 Camino.”
Well, here is the
point: Low cost Socket
370 chip with 3D Now! Technology. I know that might bring a smile to some of your faces. But, how can you go lower in cost than the Celeron and still
make a profit? Please don’t ask me that question, I don’t know how it
can be done, but I have a feeling they’ll do it somehow.
Why did they decide So, what are the Now, what about Overall, VIA, I
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to do it? They saw money in it. After
all, AMD has been racking in the cash ever since they started cloning
Intel before most of us were born, right? WRONG! Okay, so
where is their logic in this? Did
a chief executive just decided to throw millions of dollars out of the
window and try to compete with Intel in the SUPER lost cost PC
department? Well,
basically, yes. Many
companies have failed. IBM
was a partner with Cyrix, but then decided to start making CPUs for
companies like Apple
skate. Don’t forget
that IDT’s Winchip division also got bought.
latest rumors behind the chip? Well,
from what I’ve heard, it’s going to be a tweaked up MII processor,
with 3D-NOW, 256KB of L2 onboard, and a Socket 370 interface. Doesn’t sound all that bad, depending on their definition of
“tweaked up.” If
it’s tweaked in how the K6-2 was tweaked to make the Athlon, VIA has
a buyer in M. A. Dockter.
this Apollo Pro Plus 133 Chipset? Well, it’s basically a BX chipset, made by a different
company, with support for AGP 4X, and the 133Mhz Front side bus, which
means the chipset also supports PC-133 SDRAM. Soon it will support Double Data Rate PC-266 SDRAM. Not bad, but as we all know, if it’s not Intel (or the AMD
Athlon) it’s not quality. Well,
tests have shown, with this chipset, things might change. I bet most of us remember that incompatibility problem with
some Video chipsets. Well, from what I’ve heard, that’s been fixed.
must wish you good luck. If
you have some good add guys to pull this off, it just might work for
you. Also, it wouldn’t
hurt to get PC Mechanic on your side.
Intermission
Before I move on to Windows 2000, I must take this time to say Happy
Anniversary to Jen, the love of my life. I’m very sorry I had to work tonight. By the way, I’m taking names of anyone that called me
whipped, and you will be prosecuted. Did I mention that I love her very much?
The three most used words in operating systems: Microsoft, Windows,
and Bug. They’ve went
together ever since Windows 3.0. Once again, our “big brother” has decided to release
another great and grand operating system. Is it going to be great and grand, or is it going to be another
Windows 98? Well, after
running Beta3 for a little bit, I feel it’s going to be another
Windows 98. Take your
basic Windows 98, and put it on a NT style OS. Windows 2000 does for NT 4.0 what Windows 98 did for 95. IT’S BASICALLY JUST A SHELL UPDATE!! Personally, I feel they should just be selling it for $20 a CD
as they did for Windows 98 SE, and don’t even get me started on SE. They are now making you PAY for bug fixes?!? My advice to everyone: If you are running Windows 98, don’t
bother upgrading to Windows 2000 until they get some major bugs worked
out. In other words, wait
until they release the first major set of bug fixes.
