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Re: FS: New Pentium VX Mother Board *Reduce to $60* BEWARE

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From: David Harding
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 00:00
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Alex tomic wrote:

>  In article <34c6d8c2.7877023@bertrand.carleton.ca>, miles@idirect.com wrote:
> >Houston Technologies
> >i430VX
> (sic)
> >-Support Cyrix 6x86, AMD K5 CPUs
> >
> >*NEW* in packet,  $70 to $60
>
> WARNING
>
> These motherboards are NOT intel VX chipsets, they are "fake" VXpro
> motherboards that are extremely unstable and of extremely low quality. Do not
> use one of these motherboards if they are given to you for free, they are
> *that* worthless.

Not that I am a fan of Houston (took mine back) but for the sake of accuracythey
DO make boards with genuine Intel VX chipsets in addition to their
VXPRO chipsets. From this ad I would say this does use the Intel set but
buyer should check.  Cheers... David

> Alex Tomic
> atomic@rogers.wave.ca
> http://home.on.rogers.wave.ca/atomic
>
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From: David Harding <davidh@nortel.ca>
Subject: Re: FS: New Pentium VX Mother Board  *Reduce to $60* BEWARE
Date: 1998/01/23
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