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To: Monica Detwiler who wrote (168805)	7/28/2002 11:13:55 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Stability issues That's a pretty old post, Monica. Dereck put a bad stick of memory in his system, or had a bad power supply. No one else seems to be having any trouble with Athlons. Meanwhile, there continue to be reports of Pentium 4s working for 2 to 12 weeks, then just dying. These are mostly from overclockers, who were used to the internally very robust Athlons (though it's a lot easier to break an Athlon if you're clumsy attaching the heatsink). It seems that the P4's run at the ragged edge of their voltage tolerances and burn out in a few weeks, like a cheap light bulb, if the power supply is a little out of spec. It's hard to blame the overclockers. They had been running Athlons for years at elevated voltages without problems, so they weren't expecting P4 to be so much more prone to failure when run just slightly out of spec.