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Subject: Re: Athlon 1,1GHz

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 22:25:41 02/14/00

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On February 14, 2000 at 23:49:03, Peter Kasinski wrote:

>The notion that they all do something “absolutely stupid” by not yielding to
>what often is nothing more than a marketing ploy (like releasing under-marked
>chips) is boring. Most motherboard manufacturers today release boards supporting
>bus speeds in 1 MHz increments. Why do you suppose they do that? And where
>exactly do you buy memory chips afraid of 75 MHz anyway?

Maybe your processor is part of the "marketing ploy." Maybe your video card is,
too.

But are you willing to bet that everything in your PC is underclocked?

Do you think the entire computer industry is trying to trick you?

IE, are you sure that your modem and sound card and network card and graphics
card are so well designed that you can overclock them all by 14% and they will
all work perfectly?

If you believe this, good luck.

-Tom



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