Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 11:42:41 09/15/99
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On September 13, 1999 at 23:47:36, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On September 13, 1999 at 19:05:19, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>My understanding is that AMD doesn't leave as much tolerance as Intel does when >>they rate for speed. Consequently, it is difficult to safely overclock AMD >>chips. >> >>Dave > >From what I've heard recently, this may have changed a bit. Supposedly the >PIII-600s are frequent crashers, presumably because they're not truly meant to >run at that speed. There is an article at Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com >:) with an interesting PIII vs. Athlon comparison. I was stunned when I read >the findings. > >Jeremiah I'll have to go check this out, thanks. I imagine that remarking a 550 as a 600 would take away a big chunk of any tolerance that was there. :-) Dave
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