Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 22:54:06 02/22/03
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On February 23, 2003 at 00:55:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On February 22, 2003 at 19:40:44, Jeremiah Penery wrote: > >>On February 22, 2003 at 17:40:10, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>Wouldn't argue. And I'd bet it would not fail a single time either. Until >>>you push the clock beyond what the engineers set the limit at. >> >>Tell that to the people who ever bought a P3 1.13GHz processor. :) > > >So? The original pentium had a horrible FP bug. That happens. Care to check >the AMD errata sheets? They do it to. As did even the Crays... So, the Intel engineers pushed the clock beyond the limit. In essence, they overclocked it. You seem to think it's ok for Intel to do it, but that anyone else who does it is risking catastrophic meltdown every time they turn on their machine. In case you couldn't tell, I'm intentionally using hyperbole. I hope you get the point.
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