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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (8852)	9/17/2000 12:05:56 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dan, According to The Register, there was not enough chips to go around even for the hardware sites / magazines. Chipzilla arranged to have the system shipped directly to us from one of the UK's leading monthly PC Mags. This is what The Register found: Intel sent us one of its vanilla systems, using a Vancouver 820 mobo with 128Mb of PC800 Rambus. We took it out of its box and gaped in awe at the colossal fan stuck on the side of the system unit, in addition to a smaller one on the back panel, the one in the power supply and another on the graphics card. Not since early Russian nuclear reactors have we seen so much active cooling. The giant fan has a duct to draw air from the large passive heatsink attached to the CPU, while the fan on the back of the system unit was set to suck air into the box. But it was unfortunately all in vain as the system refused to power up. theregister.co.uk Joe