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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: richard surckla who wrote (121597)	8/3/2000 1:42:48 AM
From: Rob S.	Respond to of 1575425

Comparing an Intel PC with expensive 800 RDRAM - a vaporware Intel 1.13 against an AMD with PC133 memory is jury rigged and irrelevant. Time for you to short AMD - go for it tomorrow and report back what you did!

To: richard surckla who wrote (121597)	8/3/2000 2:19:14 AM
From: Rob S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575425

Richard, you have probably seen this report from the most respected independent evaluation site on the web: tomshardware.com Tom's found serious instability with the PII 1 Ghz and hoped new microcode would fix it. It didn't. <"Bottom Line Two days ago Intel has released a new high-end processor and already now two samples seem to be faulty. One of them is either still in Kyle's possession or on its way back to Satan Clara, the other one is in my possession. I doubt that much more than 20-30 test samples were shipped to the press. Two of them makes 7-10% of the lot. If the percentage of faulty parts is just as high in the shipments to the OEMs Intel has got a major disaster at hands. I just wonder, was that really worth it? Couldn't the world have done just fine without the new Pentium III 1.13 GHz? Couldn't have Intel done without another little scandal? Let's see, maybe Intel is right and Kyle's as well as my Pentium III 1.13 GHz sample were indeed the only faulty ones. It's up to you to decide if you believe that and it's up to Intel to find out what's the reason behind those buggy parts. The one fact remains: Something is wrong with Intel's new Pentium III 1.13 GHz processor. "> Hope this helps.