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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (38777)	5/9/2001 9:35:17 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: "Fact is that relatively no one is overclocking the Pentiums. " Quality Stability Reliability

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (38777)	5/10/2001 1:39:20 AM
From: jcholewa	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

> Looks like this guy has lowered the page to a new level Ed Stroligo is one of the good guys. What he says is always worth listening to. Holy crap, you're right ... I do act like a webmaster security guard. Whoa! Okay, that aside: I don't necessarily agree with the bulk of the article, but I feel compelled to point out that a lot of people feel the same way, and, in fact, a lot of the problem is real and is linked to AMD's overly stupid overreliance on VIA. The odd thing is that my disagreement with his article is the opposite of most everybody's here. I agree that AMD platforms have unacceptable stability and reliability problems in the most common operating systems and software. Where I disagree is that Ed has the radical notion that Intel platforms behave differently, whereas my personal experience shows that the Intel platforms, with any chipset vendor (including Intel), from the P5 all the way to the P4, are just as crappy, and just as unstable, and just as unreliable, as platforms from competing dudes. Put straight, I'd have to say that (not counting using hardware with Linux or Unix or Be or Windows 2000, since those OSes actually work) every motherboard/cpu combo out there has some problem that makes my life a living hell. So far, my personal consensus is that the Abit KT7-RAID and the Epox MVP3G5 are the closest to purgatory, while the Asus CUSL2 and the Asus P5A occupy the deepest, darkest pits of hell. Incidentally, I have nothing against Asus. It just happens to be an amazing coincidence that I've had rotten luck with their boards. I have a point somewhere. But it's lost in the translation, I'm sure. I'm just unable to sleep (too cidally depressed, see), so I'm occupying myself by typing lots of characters. ;)