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Subject: Re: Dur?

Author: Keith Evans

Date: 10:25:31 07/03/03

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On July 02, 2003 at 17:51:47, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>When trying to find calculations on a cpu you never, ever calculate by the chips
>"rated" speed, the core is almost always much better. Take the latest
>hand-picked 1700+ (1.46GHz) chips. Lets say after 24-48 hours of testing we find
>the core can do 2440MHz at 1.75v, completely stable via Prime95/BurnK7 for hours
>and hours at 60C (via Standard heatsink and fan running low rpms, to raise cpu
>temp to 60C intentionally).

I think that there's one fundamental place where we disagree and it occurs early
in the process. You make the assumption that running Prime95/BurnK7 is
sufficient to verify that a chip is operating correctly when run out of
specification. I question this. The documentation for BurnK7 has a disclaimer
stating that it alone is not sufficient. How can we verify your fundamental
assumption?



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