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To: kapkan4u who wrote (109288)	5/4/2000 1:21:00 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 1578497

Re: What did you think was spun? The use of Bapco only as a benchmark - no discussion of the far superior native floating point and better performance on just about any custom or in house applications. Heavy emphsis on "all current motherboards are inadequate and about to become orphans". He basically was trying to discourage anyone from buying any current AMD product. Had there been any balance at all in the article he'd have mentioned the stability of the 750 chipset - which is as good as anything Intel (or VIA) has ever produced - and noted it's reliability compared to the alternative (an 8XX chipset from Intel that either has stability problems, performance problems, or both). We've been running a bunch of 750 based machines for quite a while now and they are as good or better than anything that currently exists. That fact should have been mentioned, not igored and replaced with the notion that something better is coming and you should wait for it. There's always something better coming, how'd you like to be one of the people who stayed with an inadequate machine until the 820 came out? Ouch! Regards, Dan