Author: Slater Wold
Date: 15:56:57 08/07/02
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Very true. The only 2 people I know to try to use XPs were you and Jonas. Both of you live in Europe. Neither of you got it to work. Maybe that's the problem. On August 07, 2002 at 17:20:51, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On August 07, 2002 at 17:13:14, Slater Wold wrote: > >that's just *two*. > >There are so many who tried and failed. XPs aren't garantueed. look >for a test in the factory you only pay a few dollar. > >You live near Texas the home town of AMD. > >I live in europe. > >Chance MPs are sold as XPs here is a lot smaller. Perhaps 1 at each 100 >cpu's or so instead of 1 at each 2 there. > >Also i need to note that a few year ago when some reported certain cpu's >to overclock very well, that out of the 10 tested cpu's here, *none* of >them overclocked well. > >Somehow the quality of the cpu's of people of people who buy them now >is different everywhere, depending upon place and time. > >If you have 1 cpu that works. logically the next serial number will have >a high chance to work too. > >If you have 1 cpu that doesn't work, the rest won't work SMP either. > >>On August 07, 2002 at 17:09:22, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>On August 07, 2002 at 12:22:24, ERIQ wrote: >>> >>>>wanted to know how to get xp's to run stable on dual mb. also which dual >>>>motherboard is best and for what reason. Also why mp's maybe better >>>> >>>> thx, >>>> Eriq >>> >>>forget it, normal XPs don't run dual. only the ones that have the >>>extra caches like the MP has. So kind of 'failed MPs'. They press a >>>huge number of cpu's which could act as mp and only the best out of >>>them get called 'mp'. the others get sold as XP. but the big bulk here >>>doesn't run MP at all. >>> >>>I tested many XPs *none* of them ran MP at all. >> >>Intersting, I could take a picture right now of 2 running 1.73Ghz in my >>computer, as we speak. ;)
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