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

To: Petz who wrote (88657)	1/20/2000 11:55:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1577019

Petz, I thought the case could be cleverly opened, fingered faster and then put back together to look pristine again. I do not see how AMD can halt this as long as the SD shop tells the customer the risk and that it voids the warranty. As long as the client is able to do it legally then he should be able to get someone to do it for him, ie a store. That bit about infringing their copyright will not fly...it is obvious that they want the buyer to pay for a faster unit with $$ to AMD and not with $$ to Joey the Screwdriver. I think that case has been fought and lost already in similar cases with cars as long as the buyer knows what he is doing and any change is legal for pollution control devices in the car(usually not, but for drag racers etc they do it all the time and "hot" chips are for sale all over the car mags) This will not apply to "hot" Athlons...it will be full speed boogy(IMO) I see a turn of the wheel here, I can recall when AMD was silent and Intel was trying to stop overclockers. Bill