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To: minnow68 who wrote (5737)8/19/2000 4:05:37 PM
From: semiconengRespond to of 275872
 
It was in a news article about six months ago. I don't remember the link. BTW, the link that you provided clearly demonstrates that if you buy a boxed Pentium or Pentium Pro, they come with a three year guarantee. That says nothing about a CPU in a machine you bought from an OEM. It also says nothing about the Pentium II, Pentium III, or any of the Xeon chips.

It is a well known fact, that Computer OEM processors have a warranty by the Box Maker, or seller, not intel. By the way, the same is true for AMD Processors. Also, here it says that intel warranty's "PENTIUM PROCESSORS", a XEON and PII are both Pentium Processors. Your lack of a link to your claim, speaks volumes.
support.intel.com

Hey, I read about this six months ago. It is quite possible my memory is wrong and I'm mistaken. But your link does not seem to me to contradict a single thing I said.

Your memory is wrong, and you are mistaken. The issue that I had with your message was specifically related to intel's warranty. It contradicts everything you said, but I'm not surprised that it doesn't "seem that way to you".

I just spent 20 minutes looking through Intel's site trying to find warranty information. The one thing that is pretty easy to conclude is that Intel certainly is not bragging about their processor warranties! Trying to find up to date information on this on the Intel site seems difficult.

Mike


And this statement is totally irrelevant to your original claim, that intel reduced it's warranty from 3 years to 30 days, which you are unable to offer any evidence of. Intel clearly states that boxed processors of the Pentium family have a warranty for 3 years, not the 30 days that you claim.

SemiconEng