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Subject: Re: Athlon 1,1GHz

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 19:09:14 02/13/00

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On February 13, 2000 at 22:00:13, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>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

You can ask Ed about stability of overclocked Athlon.

Eugene



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