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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (29215)	2/28/1998 10:53:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1573877

Bearcatbob, Well by the summer time, Intel will be broke and AMD will jack the price up to $5000 per pin on each chip(made you cry!!) I see a continuation of price drops and better AMD availability. What ever you do stay away from the slot 1 thing, it will soon be abandoned like the Pentium Pro(another failed child) We can say this on the AMD thread as they have no defenders here. Also make sure you buy a standard box, not a proprietary Dell, AST, IBM, COMPAQ box. they costs extra and have no good upgrade path via motherboard change. In addition make sure the mother board has future speed bin support. IE, if you buy a 233 Meg CPU and Board. based on socket 7, make sure it is jumperable to somewhere above 300 MHZ and has bus speed jumperability to at least 100 Mhz. They are just coming out now, and by the summer the old slow boards will be in the dump bin and being sold cheap. They will hit 233, and no more, and will only go to 66 MHZ bus speeds. I think AMD will do well this summer, unless we get the bear by the horns,as you cannot say balls here. Bill