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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (27548)	1/2/1998 1:51:00 AM
From: Investor A	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1571002

Jim, I have read lots of user reports from Tapei on the overclockable K6-166 (to 266Mhz @2.8V) and could not interprete this news well. These overclockable K6-166 (either CA or USA version) must be of .25u process as the current .35u K6 tops at 250Mhz @3.2V Should I interprete the news as .25u K6 are in mass production or the yield of .25u K6 is too low to qualify for 2.1V? I am clueless.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (27548)	1/2/1998 10:36:00 AM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 1571002

Hi Jim; I'm sure my CTX was a close out of older inventory, but still at $599 with monitor it was a steal. And for runing on the internet even if I get ISDN a high end set would be a waste. I can assure you the way I have this thing configured it will ( in real use ) out run the fastest P chip going, were they don't know jack about setting one up. ( and most users don't ) Memory and knowing how to push win386.swp and temp files into it instead of hard drive is a huge benifit. Money spent on a high end cpu with only 32meg of memory is dah! MSFT and programs may tell you that you don't need 64meg of of memory, but let me tell you I have a hp694 c printer and a hp 5s scanner, and were I'v heard people complain about how color printing slows them down..my spooler is all in memeory..while the printer itself is not fast, my system is not hung up, by the time I hit print and can look back at the sceern it's all in Ram and cooking. CTX may have changed Vidio cards on the newer boxes, but this one can max the limit of the monitor, in fact I had to slow it down a bit :-) Running nuts&bolts I brouht up the cpu monitor..nothing I have done yet uses over 20% of the cpu power, so to me a high end cpu is like putting a jet engin on a skateboard..it may have the power but it's never utilized..and if I were going to run a server I would run a RISC chip anyway, not a stupid Intel. ------------ The CTX modem left something to be desired, reminds me of the bugs in the USRBs. Give me a rockwell chip in a modem or I will get one and sell the other at any price.. In fact I pulled the 33.6 modem and put it for sale in a local BBS thread at $25, or BO. Jim