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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (39948)	4/15/2000 10:42:00 AM
From: John Walliker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Daniel, Yes, I have seen the article. Let me quote from it: Engineers have a technical term for such a product - crap. I think that sentiment nicely sums up the article itself. For example, I never realised that a power supply regulator formed part of the 820 chipset - having read the article I now know different. I always thought that Intel published a detailed specification for the contents of the serial prom on their website. Now I know that I imagined it. Now I know that a power supply smoothing capacitor occasionally discharges itself. Well, yes I have heard of components being defective, but when was a faulty capacitor a defective integrated circuit? John

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (39948)	4/15/2000 3:31:00 PM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Daniel, Before you get too obnoxious, you might want to reread both John's message to you as well as the article you posted. John said the same thing that the article says -- there's a problem with the MTH and SDRAM, not with the 820 chip. If you use the 820 chip with RDRAM, there's no current problem. That's what John pointed out to you that you avoided. The 820 is not "apparently still glitchy" and it was disingenuous and incorrect of you to say so. Dave