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To: stribe30 who wrote (6685)	8/28/2000 12:38:27 PM
From: Goutam	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 275872

Stribe30, re: "Not all is well in Pentium 1.13 Ghz Land: Joint effort by hardware sites show possible glitch with the 1.13 tomshardware.com hardocp.com " Thanks for posting the links. Thanks to HARDOCP for testing their sample along with Anand's and Tom's samples of PIII 1.13GHz CPUs (supplied by Intel) in the presence of an Intel engineer. As per HARDOCP, all three failed a simple real task of Linux kernel compilation. This indicates to me that Intel's PIII 1.13GHz is nothing but a PR stunt to grab the speed crown. As per Tom the Intel supplied solution(VC820MB) is tuned (BIOS) for lower performance. If true, what Intel did here was to stamp 1.13GHz on the part that's not allowed to run at full potential - a blatant attempt to steal the speed crown. IMHO, this is clearly a deception, and an attempt to fool the market as well as the entire public. Intel's release of 1.13GHz processor clearly had an effect on the AMD stock price. What if Intel finds that its 1.13 GHz CPUs really have a problem? Is Intel going to recall handful of these CPUs if they find out that the problem reported by Tom is for real, or are they going to just provide a bios fix that would tune down the performance of the CPU even further? Goutama