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On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:33:15PM -0400, Brown, Len wrote:

> So, the 13-year-old design advice will continue to apply to
> 13-year-old systems, but newer systems with C3 and HPET
> should be using them.

Last I looked HPET isn't everywhere yet (absent from nforce4
mainboards for example, but that might be a linux issue as I was told
window can see one).