Hi all!

I have a similar situation (below) in that 2 years ago I bought what was
supposed to be a AMD K-5 166.   A year later someone had me run benchmarks
on it and it reported 116.   I also ran WinTune on it and I got a report of
116.   Last  Fall I upgraded my bios chip to Mr. Bios.   That reports 116
consistently also.    I called the tech/company which sold me the
case/motherboard/processor.   He proceeded to tell me that the benchmark
program was at fault...or that the bios wasn't configured properly.    Am I
getting the run around, too?

Sue Na
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At 08:05 AM 4/19/99 -0500, Charles Yates wrote:
>Hi All,
>   I'm not sure if this is off-topic or not, but here goes. Recently, my
>power supply died and took my hard drive, motherboard, etc. with it. I
>had a major rebuild done using the cyrix 6x86 mk II cpu. The shop was
>supposed to use a 300 mhz cpu, but my display says it is a 233 mhz cpu.
>   When I called the shop about this, they tried to tell me they used a
>233 mhz cpu because it was as fast as a pentium 300 mhz chip. Personally,
>I think this is hogwash, but first I'd like to find out if the 233 mhz
>cyrix cpu is as fast as a 300 mhz pentium chip.
>   Secondly, I would like to ask for suggestions about how to handle
>these people and this situation. They did list the cpu as a 300 mhz cyrix
>6x86 M II chip (no other description), so I definitely feel they are
>practicing deceptive advertising at the least. TIA
>   Yours,
>   Charles M. Yates
>_

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