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

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (45540)	1/12/1999 1:26:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573134

Tom's Hardware Guide's new weekly blurb: Check out this link: www5.tomshardware.com as well as some of these quotes: "Rumor has it that Intel is pretty disappointed about the small number of Pentium III optimized applications that will be ready at the launch date." "Celeron has a very good chance of jeopardizing AMD's K6-2-sales, since even Celeron 366 is already faster than K6-2 400 in office as well as game applications and it's cheaper as well." "If you ask around larger OEMs, you'll find out that there are not many, who have got a K6-3 yet. ... This means that K6-3 will not be on the shelves before April this year." Here's a section I found very interesting: "There is a large amount of K6-2 CPUs that has a problem too. Last year AMD changed the method of certifying the clock rate of their K6-2 CPU. They pushed the limits for a successful pass further down, and as a result a lot of K6-2 CPUs failed in low to mid-quality Socket7 motherboards. AMD noticed the mistake and changed the certification procedure back to where it used to be. The 'lower quality' CPUs from that time are now on sale marked with 'AFR66'. Be careful not to buy one of those. They are now only guaranteed to run at 66 MHz FSB. Be careful that the 'K6-2 300' or 'K6-2 333' CPU you buy does not have 'AFR66' on it, because then it might not work at 100 or 95 MHz system bus!!" I guess AMD's aggressive roadmap for the K6-2 is forcing some people there to cut corners. I wonder how many K6-2's is a "large amount"? Tenchusatsu