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To: hmaly who wrote (109598)	5/6/2000 5:47:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1575981

From AMDZone - "Thanks to Michael of Germany for sending in news on the KX133 chipset motherboards: Some German sites got mail in which is claimed that the Thunderbird/VIA KX133 problem is a timing problem. The Adressbus of the Athlon has a tolerancy holding information for up to 300ps. The Irongate Chipset needs 200ps (<300 = okay), the KX133 needs 250ps (<300 = okay). The Thunderbird has only a tolerancy of 210ps! The Irongate Chipset will work, but the KX133 exceeds this tolerancy and fails. Since not only the chipset but the mainboard layout have influence on this, some mainboards may work and Asus claims the K7V will. short report on: au-ja.de; amdzone.com Looks like Via took a couple of short cuts when they designed the KX133. But there is a chance high-quality KX133 motherboards will work with Thunderbird.