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To: Road Walker who wrote (144100)	9/25/2001 1:38:12 PM
From: tcmay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

And the AMD parts burn up more easily... "First, AMD may be the low price supplier, but maybe not the low cost supplier. Lots of things go into cost, logistics, marketing funds, inventory turns, defectives and returns, the need to stock additional supporting parts... But if you look at the way that AMD slowly lost the business, part by part over time, it looks like consumers preferred the Intel based machines. And once Gateway got down to only one AMD part, the decision was probably that it just wasn't worth the cost to maintain the extra vendor." The recent study of two AMD parts and two Intel parts showed what happened when the heat sink was removed (as might happen if the heat sink shook loose). Both AMD parts drastically overheated...one of them started a fire inside the PC. Both Intel parts handled the removal gracefully. This is an overall part of the cost of a CPU. Liability issues alone are a cost. --Tim May