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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (26088)	1/23/2001 1:13:15 PM
From: EricRR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Two anecdotes make a trend... This is the second time (SIS was the first) that a Socket A motherboard review garnered reliability praise from Dr Tom. And we know how hard he pushes the envelope. The most important finding was the enjoyable fact that each of the tested boards ran 100% stable even at the fastest possible memory timing settings. VIA's upcoming DDR chipsets may not look too impressive right now, but the Apollo KT133A is a matured, fast and solid product that offers good performance. tomshardware.com on the SIS: Reviewing prototype motherboards has formerly been quite a piece of work. Not this one. No hang ups, no driver issues. Everything was just like with a fully matured product. I guess SiS spend a lot of time optimizing and refining the chipset, as there was seemingly no need to rush it to the market as fast. tomshardware.com I remember AMD starting an aggressive "AMD approved" motherboard testing process a while back- working closely with manufacturers to increase reliability. Looks like it's paying off.