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To: dougSF30 who wrote (178)	7/7/2000 3:09:10 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 275872

ASUS boards are not equal in stability Doug, re: "I wonder why Tom had so much better luck with his Asus board than the PCExpo demo lackey? He raved about the stability." Although JC mentions K7V in his journalistics, it is not entirely clear which precisely board was in those frozen computers. As an example I mentioned elsewhere, the ATX K7V (not on AMD approved list) is not equal to K7V-RM (uATX, AMD approved) in terms of "stability", and both are SlotA. The PCExpo demo was for Duron/whatever and definitely with SocketA. As you might know from AMD specs, the SocketA chips are in "push-pull" bus driver mode, while SlotA processors are in "open drain" mode, and the VIA chipset is in "push-pull" mode too. Apparently someone in charge at AMD has very little clue that it may be difficult to provide proper termination for all this variety of bus driver combinations, in practice I mean. On another OT note, I wish the style of reporting like JC to go away. While trying to be "cute" and "cool", JC is missing a lot of details that might be of great importance for his readers. So far the content of his report is close to nil, and creates a repelling feelings. Regards, - Ali