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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: kash johal who wrote (39122)10/13/1998 1:25:00 AM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (2) of 1573812
 
Kash-Poor - re: " Do you think these could be defective Xeons that don't work on the SMP boards that Intel is offloading to Gateway."

Check the Intel thread - I already hypothesized such a scenario.

However, the XEONS are not defective.

They work absolutely fine in one or two XEON systems. It is only with 4 XEONS hooked up that problems arise at 450 MHz. 400 MHz XEONS work fine in 4-way systems, if they are certified by Intel.

Re: "Could be a very smart move IMHO."

Same as AMD offloading slow K6-2's as 333 MHz or 380 MHz with 95 MHz front side buses. I doubt that you will run around your neighborhood proclaiming these DEFECTIVE because they won't run at 100 MHz FSB.

Paul
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