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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (61730)	11/2/2001 12:22:03 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (2) of 275872

Wanna: 2) The difference is that when Intel has a show-stopper, the response is immediate, and satisfactory. So far, I have not heard anything justifying the instabilities that occurred in ALL of the AMD chips in the review, but NONE of the Pentium 4 chips. If the AMD chip is not at fault, replacing it won't fix the problem. Similarly, replacing the processor on an Intel i820+MTH isn't going to solve the issues there. I don't know the source of the problems Tom's Hardware encountered - and, yes, it is alarming that a site as reputable as Tom's can just let a comment like that hang there, with absolutely no additional comments or clarifications. What we do know is that a non-standard memory timings was used (CAS2 for DDR266) and while the memory may support it, the motherboard may not. The symptom of "random crashes" would fit very well with the memory timing issue. -fyo

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