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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (88655)	1/20/2000 10:02:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576435

Bill, you can't "fry a chip and ask for a new one under warranty with the golden fingers" The outer case has to be removed to attach the golden fingers which automatically voids the warrantee, and can always be detected easily. I don't think AMD intends to make the golden fingers devices illegal, they want to go after companies that do the CPU modification (removing case and attaching GF) for a fee. If hobbyists are forced to do it themselves, they risk (slight) destroying the CPU when they try to remove the case as well as frying the CPU (even slighter). Petz