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To: Maxwell who wrote (41794)	11/18/1998 4:03:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1572598

<Go back and read my other posts. Goldman Sach and Sutro & Co. said that AMD already has WORKING CHIPSET! I repeat, AMD ALREADY HAS WORKING CHIPSET FOR K7, NORTH BRIDGE AND SOUTHBRIDGE. It will be good for Via, ALI, and SIS to be second sources. If not AMD can carry the water. Do you think chipset is harder to design than K7? I hope you answer NO. That is like after seeing you run I ask whether you can walk.> Big deal, Intel could also claim that they have a working Camino chipset, even though it won't be released until mid-1999. If AMD doesn't have access to some sort of working chipset in the lab by now, then their June 1999 release date is in jeopardy. By the way, Max, are you sure that the "working chipset" for K7 was actually designed by AMD, and not something that was borrowed from one of its partners? <Have you bailed on AMD yet? Or are you waiting for Gateway to announce?> Yeah, I'm out at 27 3/4. Made a handsome profit. Didn't know Gateway was going to announce, but I don't think that will have much effect on AMD stock. Tenchusatsu

To: Maxwell who wrote (41794)	11/18/1998 11:06:00 PM
From: Time Traveler	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572598

Maxwell, I just put together another computer system for some one else. This time, I broke down and bought a non-Intel processor just to experience on how a non-Intel processor would perform. Well, at the swap-meet, Celeron-A's were very rare. The cheapest motherboard and CPU (350MHz) combination was $225. I was able to find a K6-2/333 with AT/ATX motherboard (100MHz bus, ALi chipset) selling for $165. After a couple days of struggling with hardware compatibility issues, I was able to overclock the K6-2/333 to 366MHz. To my disappointment, the system cannot run at 100MHz bus. I had to scale down the bus frequency to 83MHz. I do not know whether it is the MB or the CPU that fails to run at 100MHz (the AGP video card did run at 100MHz in another system). Well, should I try to overclock it to 400MHz? Time Traveler