Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 12:47:37 02/14/00
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On February 14, 2000 at 13:55:27, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On February 14, 2000 at 12:53:27, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>From what I've read, AMD is fully supporting the Kryotech machine, to the point >>of providing a warranty for the processor. This tells me that they are pretty >>serious about stability; so they probably wouldn't be sending Kryotech >>processors that just barely work at 750MHz. I won't comment on the situation >>with Digital because I don't know anything about it. >> >>-Tom > >DEC did the same thing... although I didn't ask about the financial details (I >am sure Kryo pays DEC more for a chip to be overclocked than others pay for a >stock chip, just to cover the warranty issues). I have no idea how they sort >chips nowadays. Intel obviously sorts parts into X, Y and Z clock bins, for >some devices. Maybe AMD has a 750+ bin they sort parts into for the Kryo guys? >who knows. > >However I still think that the gains are from raising the core cpu voltage >more than from trying to lower the core cpu temperature... If AMD already has a demonstration 1.1GHz, does this mean Kryotech could use it to put together, say, a 1.4 or 1.5Ghz box? Dave
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