Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 19:00:13 02/13/00
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On February 13, 2000 at 20:49:38, Robert Hyatt wrote: >GO to tom's hardware page. All the overclockers generally run up Vcc. It is >a well-known trick. Otherwise you are just 'lucky' that the manufacturer was Your average overclocker uses just enough cooling to keep the processor from exploding. So they are doing nothing to change the switching times of the gates. Kryotech is. The fact is, you don't know enough about AMD's process to make informed comments on this subject. You don't know the Athlon's timing tolerances. You don't know the fab process tolerances. You don't know what grade chips AMD is giving to Kryotech. You don't know how temperature might affect the fab process. The only thing you seem to know for sure is that some overclockers increase Vcc, so whenever you see the word "overclock," you just assume that's what's happening. Bogus assumption. I'm not saying that I know any of this stuff either. But I do know enough to avoid jumping to conclusions about 1GHz stability and Vcc. -Tom
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