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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (53182)	3/22/1999 2:30:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1583878

<Gateway delays K6-2 systems> Thanks for the article. That article confirms two theories that have been repeated over and over on this thread: 1) The Super 7 platform is still having reliability problems, even if AMD processors aren't: The anomaly was tracked to the PCI bus on the motherboard, which is manufactured by Microstar International. 2) MHz sells (™McMannis): The difference between a 450MHz machine and a 400MHz [the current fastest Celeron chip] machine translates into about six extra months of usable life," he estimated. Too bad that guy didn't see Tom Pabst's Business Winstone 99 tests under Windows 98 (http://www4.tomshardware.com/releases/99q1/990223/cpu-news-04.html): Celeron 400: 21.1 K6-2 400: 19.0 That K6-2 450 isn't likely to be any faster than the Celeron 400, but consumers aren't going to know that. Tenchusatsu