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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (71069)	9/4/1999 8:47:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574188

dEngel, "The latest KinetiZ7 mainboard has been launched into market by Legend QDI, which can support K7- Athlon processor. KinetiZ7's performance and speed are outstanding which can support a frequency of up to 200MHz and the system's internal memory can take up to 768MB. KinetiZ7 also has 2xAGP which user can experience 3D games as well as software with a vivid 3D effect. For more details, please visit the press release page" qdigrp.com Yet another Athlon motherboard. QDI. BTW, QDI is known for good quality and low no. of returned mobos. The noose tightens a little more! <G>

To: Paul Engel who wrote (71069)	9/4/1999 8:55:00 PM
From: greg nus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574188

Paul, for a minute it sounded like you actualy owned AMD stock. That you were an and investor. is it true?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (71069)	9/4/1999 8:56:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574188

dEngel, Here's some 3rd hand E-mail concerning the MSI motherboard problem. Take it for what it's worth but it could help explain the problem. From another BBS...amdzone via lost circuits. "Went down to *** to see what the availability situation is. They have one Athlon there in the store (550 MHz) and he said that he could get all the CPU's he wanted but wasn't going to bother until he had some motherboards to pair with them. His son now works at AMD and his job involves certifying motherboards. He said that MSI had submitted a motherboard to AMD for certification and then, after they had got certified, they went back and fiddled with the design and then manufactured some 11,000 substandard boards and shipped them out. They were sent to Japan, the U.K., and the U.S., including Austin. They had removed a transistor, reduced the size of many of the capacitors, and redone some of the PCB etching. Right now, AMD itself is manually reworking most of those MSI boards just to get them out on the street. He also said that IBM had pushed back the start of its' Athlon sales two weeks while they dealt with some motherboard problems of their own. Lastly, ASUS had developed a board but the design did not allow CPU speeds over 700 MHz. " Can't verify this.... Jim