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Dec 5 9:30 AM EST

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To: jcholewa who wrote (38814)	5/10/2001 9:43:12 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) of 275872

"Where I disagree is that Ed has the radical notion that Intel platforms behave differently, whereas my personal experience shows that the Intel platforms, with any chipset vendor (including Intel), from the P5 all the way to the P4, are just as crappy, and just as unstable, and just as unreliable, as platforms from competing dudes." Sad but true. The problem is likely to be two fold, 1) due to competition, corners are cut on the components. 2) the universe of possible component combinations is quite large. It is likely not possible to evaluate all combinations. Heck, when we set this office up, we were saddled with Dell Optiplex GX200s. Within a week, one of the four units failed. Now these units have PIII 866MHz with i820 chipsets with NVidia TNT2 cards (I think). And I won't talk the problems with NT4.0...

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