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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (80874)	5/29/2002 1:48:56 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Jim, re:I have this motherboard running w/1900+ Palomino...no problems... Same here, I just upgraded my K7S5A from 1400 to 1900+ on the weekend. I can't remember the last time that machine crashed and I've been running at 138 MHz FSB with the old chip (1450 MHz) and 143 MHz (XP2100+, 1720 MHz) with the new one. One of my kid's PC's will have to get upgraded from 900 to 1400 this weekend. ;-/ I was tempted to upgrade the motherboard to something like the A7V333 with built in firewire, USB 2.0, etc., but it doesn't make sense to buy a new Socket A motherboard with Hammer on the horizon. That brings up the subject of product transitions. To prevent demand for Socket A CPU's from drying up in the white box and DIY market, it makes economic sense for AMD to pretend it won't arrive until the last day of 2002. For the OEM's it makes no sense to pre-announce any products and for the motherboard makers, it makes sense to claim they will be ready whenever the chips arrive. All players are following their scripts. When clawhammer does arrive, if there are no chips under $300 within a month of intro, it will mean that yields are low. AMD needs to have lower priced Clawhammers to jump-start the motherboard support, even if it means downbinning some parts below PR 3400+ and keeping the 3400+ part at $400. Petz