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To: Scumbria who wrote (106689)8/2/2000 2:15:24 AM
From: Gary Ng  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Scumbria, Re: How much testing could anyone have done on it?

I don't know but my guess is that IBM and Dell would have done much more testing than Tom or guys over at HardwareOCP before they would put out ads to sell system with that 'faulty' 1.13GHz PIII. And if it is so easy for Tom to spot the problem, it should be caught by IBM or Dell as well. These guys are doing real dollar business and not reviews. Would they so easily put they brand name at risk ? Remember when customers buy system they don't care what cause the fault(if there is any) but it will be the fault of the company sell them the system.

gary



To: Scumbria who wrote (106689)8/2/2000 2:55:28 AM
From: richanfamus  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Scumbria : Apparently Intel has only been sampling 1.1GHz parts for a couple of weeks. They require a last minute microcode hack :

I thought Tom Pabst, in his second article, admitted he was wrong about the microcode issue being responsible for the problems he observed with the 1.13 GigaHertz part. At least, that is what I interpreted it to mean.


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