Author: Paul Massie
Date: 16:29:16 09/15/99
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I've been running a dual PIII 600 machine for a few weeks now with not a single crash attributable to the hardware. Maybe I got lucky, or maybe the problems are less than the rumor. Paul On September 15, 1999 at 14:42:41, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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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