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To: Paul Engel who wrote (106833)	8/11/2000 5:54:09 PM
From: Eric K.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Engle the Hun-- Re: Tom PabstSmear is clearly out of his league - especially when 17 year old high school kids do an infinitely better job than he does - without whining to the press. Tom comes "clean": You might remember the two articles about Intel's latest processor, the "Intel's Next Paper Release - The Pentium III at 1133 MHz." My test sample is an actual faulty part, which I pointed out in the "Revisiting Intel's New Pentium III at 1.13 GHz" second article about this new processor. Late last week I had finally received Intel's VC820 motherboard, which happens to be a specially modified platform for the P3 1.13 GHz. I considered it reasonable to give my uncooperative 1.13 GHz sample one last chance and so I tested it on this motherboard as well. It turned out that I ran in less trouble than with my other test platforms, but the system was still far from stable. One of the tests that my 1.13 GHz Uber-Processor could never finish was the Linux Kernel Compilation. To make sure that my configuration was correct I decided to make a new installation of Linux on a new hard drive. While I was at it, I thought I could also install the latest Linux 3D drivers for the GeForce 2 GTS card that I am using in the test system. This might give me the chance to run my Linux Quake 3 version as an additional benchmark as well. That's how the whole thing started. As you can see, I finally decided against writing another negative article about my buggy Pentium III 1.13 GHz processor. Instead, here I am with a positive article about 3D graphics under Linux with NVIDIA graphics cards. tomshardware.com -Eric the Pure