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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Badger who wrote (40199)	10/27/1998 11:48:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573851

Badger, I'm not touting this step thermdynamics company but there are some interesting things about them. The cooler appears to be a (peltier) thermo-electric device that you could probably make up yourself for $30. They sell them for about $100 so that's where they are making the money. On the other hand the sell you the cpu and RAM (CAS 2-PC-100) at cost so you recoup some money there. 128k of PC100 from them is $154 and the best I can find CAS2 128k sticks for is over $200. Let's ay you save $10 on the cpu, and $50 on the RAM, that's $60 all together (very conservative). So you are paying $40 (the difference) for a lifetime warranty and a tested CPU already sandwiched on the cpu. Call a regular vendor and ask them about the warranty on a cpu you intend to overclock. Watch them squirm. Jim