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- From: wallace@iitmax.iit.edu (Wallace)
- Subject: Re: 486 CPU KOOLERS FOR SALE
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.235316.1631@iitmax.iit.edu>
- Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology
- References: <1992Nov4.084645.16364@brtph560.bnr.ca> <1992Nov4.182328.19037@news.clarkson.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 23:53:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov4.182328.19037@news.clarkson.edu> faruque@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Abdullah Faruque,334CH,3752,2654247) writes:
- >From article <1992Nov4.084645.16364@brtph560.bnr.ca>, by kimmyd@bnr.ca (Kimmy Posey P920):
- >> In article <1992Nov4.004352.15077@fasttech.com>, zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk) writes:
- >>>In <1992Nov02.215953.23041@kksys.com> gk@kksys.com (Greg Kemnitz) writes:
- >>>
- >>
- >> [ highly relevant facts deleted ]
- >>
- >>>>Two -- We have NEVER seen a system fail in service due to a processor chip
- >>>>failure. This is despite having sold many many hundreds of systems. Our
- >>>>customers are in general long term customers, and most of our business is
- >>>>repeat business, so we have the opportunity to track the history of the
- >>>>systems we have sold. We also service a large number of systems sold by
- >>>>others, many with substandard cooling, and have never seen a failed cpu chip
- >>>>in them either.
- >>
- >The above statement reminds me the following quotation:
- >
- >"The difference between a computer salesman and a used car salesman is
- >that, the used card salesman knows how to drive a car and when he is
- >lying"
- Well, I have had 3 486/33 chips fail in a system where the
- power supply was located on the bottom of the tower. Finally,
- I changed to a different case with the power supply at the
- top(normal).
-
- Ralph
-
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