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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: steve harris who wrote (72768)9/22/1999 7:53:00 PM
From: Joey Smith  Read Replies (1) of 1572208
 
Steve, from Anand's review, I found this interesting:

The reason to stay away from the Athlon if you're on a budget now is that the current state of Athlon
motherboards is quite disappointing. If you absolutely must have an Athlon today, go after the FIC SD11
Motherboard because it is the only one that is available in decent quantities and after a couple of weeks of
testing it does seem like the most reliable solution out there right now. Be sure that if you do buy an
Athlon + FIC SD11 combo from anyone that you get the vendor to sell you a power supply (or a case +
power supply) that they have verified works with the combo. There have been a number of problems related
to Athlon motherboards and power supplies so make sure that your vendor takes the responsibility if your
system doesn't work because they used a cheap power supply.

Seems like the reliability rumours have some merit.

joey
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