Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:52:54 02/14/00
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On February 14, 2000 at 15:47:37, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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 I assume they will, in fact. Although I have not followed them to see if they did this with newer alphas, for example. I think the concept of 'overclocking' is a very risky one. The vendors know what voltage level and clock speed the things will handle reliably. Going above and beyond is not something I would do on a machine that I wanted to be reliable.
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