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To: dougSF30 who wrote (118998)	7/3/2000 5:16:50 PM
From: jim kelley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577915

Like I said it is probably a systems problem (and you seem to be agreeing). But we do not know what. It would be foolish to discount the T-bird as either the source of or a contributor to the problem. I think AMD is smart enough to know that.

To: dougSF30 who wrote (118998)	7/3/2000 5:35:36 PM
From: Bert Herman	Respond to of 1577915

Doug, And of course, there's an even simpler possibility. Power supply. A 1GHz tbird together with a GeForce-based video card is going to suck down a lot of juice. If the power supply is borderline, going from 900 to 1000 MHz might just cross the line. I called with technical dep. of my AMD and ASUS supplier last week, and he told me the only problem they quite often have with high speed Athlons are cheap power supplies. They recomend at least 250 W and 25A at the 5V range and a good quality. Must have something to do with rise times. But, this was NOT about Thunderbird, just high speed Athlon. It is very well possible this problem increases with Thunderbird and GTW power supply is just on the edge. Bert