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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