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Re: do abit have some deal with intel?

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From: Cameron Johnson
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:00
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ABIT have no deal with Intel. AWARD designed teh BISO for teh ABIT boards.
they are the ones who designed teh voltage settings, Intel has no control over
teh BIOS

Tony Lai wrote:

> >ive noticed only abit motherboards have the voltage selection in the bios
> >do they have some sort of deal with intel or somthing?
>
> I don't think Intel have anything to do with Award. I just think that
> abit and award went that extra mile to make it esy for us and they
> reap the rewards.
>
> >why dont other manufacturers do this? as abit is getting a lot of the
> >market share(of overclockers) because they have this feature.
>
> They may in the future, abit are just the first. abit rock.
> reading the abit or overclocking n/g's you get the impression
> that a lot of people have problems with the bh6/bx6v2.
> well there are many of us who have a very smooth, very stable
> experience with the bh6.
>
> also giving people more options means more opportunity for the
> witless to fuck things up. I can see why say Tyan or Supermicro
> have a less full feature set. They work 100% as advertised in
> servers and no more. The abit gives 110% and that's all the
> difference to me.
>
> T.
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From: Cameron Johnson <soverign@ozemail.com.au>
Subject: Re: do abit have some deal with intel?
Date: 1999/04/22
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