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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (40812)	5/22/2001 2:56:38 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: "Paul, Herr Propagandameister" Thanks Mani - for the 15'th FREE PASS for Bill - for violating your sacred rules. Nice to know that fairness never enters your mind.

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (40812)	5/22/2001 2:58:02 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: "Or you can prove this instability you speak of? Prove it, old boy, or eat it." 213.219.40.69 1.33GHz Athlon lackage resolved? Volts'r'us By a Staff Writer (cough), 20 May 2001 09.41 BST VERY MANY THANKS to Cameron Wilmot of Tweak Town for this snippet, which may well have some relevance to acreages of shortages and lackages of 1.33GHz, reported here first a bit back. Cameron writes: "While at the VIA C3 Launch in Sydney last month, I overheard a conversation between John Gatt of VIA and Steven Fraser of AMD concerning instability issues of 1.33GHz AMD Athlon processors, John had to set the core voltage on four 1.33GHz Athlons to 1.8 volts to get them running in a stable environment stable. "Many would know that increasing the core voltage of these chips through the BIOS to 1.8 volts would fix the majority of instability problems being experienced by many owners. While AMD Athlon cores clocked at 1.33GHz are stable in an idle environment, when they are put in a stressful environment for a long period of time they often tend to crash, as not enough power is being supplied to them. "Moreover, these problems have lead to retailers and systems builders getting extensive amounts of tech support emails and phone calls reporting instability problems with partly 1.2GHz cores, but mainly 1.33GHz AMD Athlon processors. It is rumoured that AMD are considering changing the default core voltage to 1.8 volts on the 1.33GHz and the 1.2GHz AMD Athlons. "AMD has not officially acknowledged this problem, but it is a rumoured they will soon." Anybody from AMD care to give us the official line on this one before the new week gets into full throttle? µ