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To: Paul Engel who wrote (140014)	7/24/2001 2:43:17 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 186894

RE:"I don't run any games, and I have built up 3 i815E systems over the past 7 months - and one i810 system - and they all run Windows superbly." Glad that all those years in the industry afforded you the ability to stick a box together. <G> You are running plain Jane systems. Try sticking in a high end video card and overclocking the thing. You'll wonder how an Intel system can become so unstable. Take your heatsink off the chip and see how long it runs... Jim

To: Paul Engel who wrote (140014)	7/24/2001 3:18:53 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, <I don't run any games, and I have built up 3 i815E systems over the past 7 months - and one i810 system - and they all run Windows superbly.> For real. I built two 810 systems (one of them being an ultra-small form factor, a.k.a. the "BookPC") for real cheap, and they functioned admirably. Also, get this -- my current system has a 1 GHz Pentium III in it, and it is running off of the 815E integrated graphics. The AGP slot sits empty; I haven't bothered to put a high-performance graphics card in it for months. <This contributes to the stability of the overall system - and STABILITY is JOB 1 for OEMs. Their margins are so low that they cannot afford service calls and massive returns on flaky hardware.> You speak the absolute truth here. No wonder the competition tries to compete on price alone. By the way, I would not trust a VIA chipset (or ALI or SIS) in any value system that I build. Usually such systems are built for people that just want to surf the Net and do a little word processing. These people aren't going to know what a BIOS is, much less how to flash one if this is the only way to cure an unstable system. Same thing with hardware drivers. Yet the fixes for the recent VIA chipset errata require new hardware drivers and BIOS updates. It might seem trivial for hardware tweakers like you and me, but your average layperson will quickly give up long before trying such things. That's the value of a good reputation for stability. And Intel has it, despite the endless attempts by the 'Droids to trash it. Tenchusatsu