This makes installation relatively easy with the Intel board, as every case we tried it with didn't create any unforeseen problems.

Interestingly enough, we noted that the i820 chipset on the VC820 does not include a heatsink or other cooling technique. The shift to .18 micron obviously has an impact here as the Intel Seattle .25 micron 440BX mainboards always came equipped with aluminum heatsinks.

We noted no heat-related issues when testing the VC820, it proved itself to be as stable, if not more so, than our standard 440BX platforms.

This is the part you've been waiting most of this year for, the benchmark results from a PC800 RDRAM powered i820 VC820 mainboard.

For added spice, we pitted the new VC820 system against a similarly configured 440BX platform running with both PC-100 and PC-133 SDRAM, as well as with CPUs running at 100MHz and 133MHz FSB speeds.