RB>> I want to buy an AMD5x86tm-P75...AMD-5-133ADZ CPU

RB>> It must be 133ADZ & not marked as 133ADW



 RS> Whats the story here ?



I have tested the ADW chip on  different motherboards and they fall

over at 160Mhz under  Warp3 they  boot and come up  with the OS/2 logo

and they a trap error (internal error#####).

Under Win95 or Dos you get strange things happen, like one motherboard

(SiS chipset) would not activate Comm1 even thought there was  a

mouse and the correct driver and the Bios reconized the port.

One other Sis board came  up  with a blank screen until you unplugged

the keyboard plug,   then It would  boot and light up until it got to

the no keyboard present  error message  and as  you had no keyboard ,

you were stuffed.

Another M/B (UMC chipset) let me boot Win95 and go right into it,

even though the key board was dead.

Yet another UMC told me that I had an FDD and HDD controller failure.



I blamed cheap motherboards. Then  I  used an ADZ chip



Not one bloody problem. Purrs like a kitten at 160Mhz.

Has done so for 24hrs a day on a BBS machine with Warp3/Max3.01  for

10 days so far.  Whats more the fan and heatsink are not even solidly

attached, they are just  sitting, resting on top and the chip seems

fairly  cold most  of the time. The centre  of the chip can get  quite

hot some days though.



All the newer chips are ADW. the stock from up to a month  ago was ADZ

chips. World wide talk on the internet confirms my testing.

And AMD cant be that stupid that they don't know  about all this

overclocking.   I am sure that they have nobbled the ADW chip

so  that they can bring out a 160Mhz chip for more  money, soon



I did not need more CPU's (re Advert) I just wanted  to  get hold of

more chips  and stock them up  if I could, as they are hard to get now.





Russell



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