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To: Paul Engel who wrote (39014)	5/11/2001 8:51:00 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: The UGM Incident You have one chip that was physically damaged, and another that was kept loose, for an indeterminate time, in the middle of a stack of other papers and objects. To this day, I haven't seen any Athlon failures in our systems (or my home systems, or those of friends). Over the years I have seen a number of Pentium X chips quietly fail while sitting in an otherwise working computer. I attribute this discrepancy (far more Intel failures than AMD failures) to the relative age of the chips. Almost all the older systems are Intel, while most of the newest systems are AMD. Eventually, I expect to see some AMD failures as well. Part of it may also be due to the cheap plastic packaging used by Intel making those chips less tolerant of power surges. Enthusiastic users "hot rod" their AMD systems, and sometimes destroy them in the process. AMD systems are popular with aggressive, technical users who are actively involved in their systems. Intel owners buy prebuilt boxes, and use them to do data entry, surf the web or track recipes, they don't overclock. What does this tell you about AMD "mindshare?" Dan