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To: dougSF30 who wrote (136023)	5/24/2001 11:26:18 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Has AMD come forward on the Athlon instability and crash reports yet? Where there's smoke, there's fire. So, you think the OEMs' component engineering, reliability and procurement people don't keep up with this stuff? And how about those Athlon supporting chipsets. Real quality stuff there. Where are the Athlon 2-way servers. Oh, canceled from all of the big OEMs list to even consider because there is only one power spec: too hot. AMD, serving you last year's technology, today.

To: dougSF30 who wrote (136023)	5/24/2001 11:34:31 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

It's not a 'safety mechanism', it's an excuse for OEMs to provide inadequate heatsinks (using Intel's inaccurate, understated thermal specifications ) and still claim X GHz, while the customer may not realize this performance at the times he needs it most. AMD provides real thermal specs, and if you follow them, you have no problems. Talk is cheap and you have an empty wallet. Customers are reporting system crashes with AMD processors under heavy load. No one is claiming crashes for P4 processors under any load, yet you only criticize the one supplier who provides a safe operating environment. Amazing!