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Subject: Re: Athlon 1,1GHz

Author: Dan Ellwein

Date: 16:00:35 02/10/00

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On February 10, 2000 at 17:03:30, Albert Silver wrote:

>On February 10, 2000 at 16:50:10, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On February 10, 2000 at 14:35:24, Peter Kappler wrote:
>>
>>>On February 10, 2000 at 10:52:38, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 10, 2000 at 10:13:16, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On February 10, 2000 at 01:04:50, Lonnie Cook wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On February 09, 2000 at 23:30:14, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On February 09, 2000 at 23:00:35, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Integrated = on-die. So it should be running at the same speed as the core. But
>>>>>>>>the design of the L2 cache may have increased latencies, so it's possible that
>>>>>>>>it won't be as fast as some people think it "should" be.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>-Tom
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>hm.
>>>>>>>whatever - could be a killer-cpu for cstal.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I have run CSTal a little Thorsten and I was getting 50-60K on mine
>>>>>
>>>>>on 1000 ?
>>>>>
>>>>>that would be 3.3 - 4 times faster than on my k6-3/400 !
>>>>>nice nice nice.
>>>>
>>>>That's because the KryoTech 1000 Mhz L2-cache runs at 400 Mhz. I hope
>>>>my new toy will arrive tomorrow :-)
>>>>
>>>>Ed
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi Ed,
>>>
>>>When will we get a chance to see this machine in action in a GM Challenge game?
>>>
>>>--Peter
>>
>>
>>I would hope "never".  This is not exactly the most reliable thing to do to
>>hardware.  Remember that for every system hang you see, there were hundreds of
>>thousands of cases where an instruction produced the wrong result but was in
>>"user-land" where it didn't crash anything.
>>
>>It is incredibly risky to overclock when 'it counts'.
>
>Even at -40 degrees?

-40 degrees? ... is that Fahrenheit or Celcius <big grin>

Furthermore, I remember reading at Tom's Hardware that one
>could adapt the system to use other chips, so it isn't limited the chip it comes
>with. If one used a chip that was naturally faster, wouldn't the dangers of
>overclocking be gradually minimized, especially at that temperature?
>
>                                      Albert Silver



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