Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:27:36 01/21/99
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On January 21, 1999 at 13:24:51, Rajen Gupta wrote: >Dear Bob, >I beg to disagree.Recently (ie in the last few months) the yield in the intel >production line has been so good that essentially all the current Pentium ll and >Celeron have an identical core. Only the quantity and the quality of the 2nd >level cache varies.Certainly I dont think there is any diff whatsoever between >the Pll 350,400 and 450 except that one is clock locked at x3.5, x4 and the >other at x4.5.I guess for mission crirical uses overclocking is certainly not >recommended but for a home computer hobbyist there is no harm in trying to get a >boost in speed, cetainly more useful than trying to alter the software >parameters of a programme in order to gain a few ELO points. > >Rajen Gupta I don't disagree.. but you care to bet on the odds you get one that was made in the last 3 months, vs one that is one year old? And do you really want to have a cpu that does everything right but add a positive and negative integer? or something similar. Such very minor 'glitches' aren't uncommon. They are _very_ difficult to find. They happen _all_ the time.
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