OK, that's understandable. You're drawing a correlation. But can you explain it? Archie made a good point about people getting hosed by buying a slabbed chip that was over-proced. Fair enough. any other examples or explanations?

I think the example you cite of the Z chip being damaged when it was removed from a slab is also a very compelling reason not to use slabs. You'll get no argument from me on that one.

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