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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (63611)	8/31/1998 12:10:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (2) of 186894

What they also show is that if you overclock a celeron to 450 Mhz it is faster than a Pentium-II at 450 Mhz. Actually, the benchmarks show the P-II-450 marginally faster on two of the three benchmarks and the C-A-300-overclocked-to-450 marginally faster on the other one. this means that many will overclock the celeron and it is far cheaper. I wonder how Intel can stop such overclocking? How many? What number of people do you believe are going to go out and buy a Celeron-A instead of a Pentium-II and overclock it? A few thousand? Millions? Everyone? Not a single P-II sold? And with Intel locking the CPU into one multiplier (4.5 x FSB for the 300 MHz Celeron-A, 5 x FSB for the 333 MHz) it won't be so easy to significantly overclock the Celeron-A-350 when it comes out locked at 3.5 x FSB or the C-A-400 at 4 x FSB. By then Intel will be pushing P-II-500s and will probably have dropped the P-II-400 altogether. Going from a 66 FSB to a 100 FSB is a 50% speed increase. Going from a 100 FSB to a 112 FSB is only a 12% increase. 133 FSB is currently not feasible. Soon it will be for the Katmai P-II-550. Now how do you overclock? Do you think the C-A-400 (4 x FSB) will run well at 533 MHz? Not a single overclocked system will be sold (at least legitimately) by a major box maker. A few small assemblers may sell a few overclocked systems without warranty but only the very brave will buy them. No company will risk their money on an overclocked and therefore inherently less stable system that could need additional support calls and could become unreliable right before a deadline. What do you the MIS administrator say to your boss when he says "You intentionally ran the hardware beyond its design specifications and that's why the computer crashed and corrupted the database?" The MIS guys are not going to go out on a limb to save a few bucks. And if they did, how much extra will the maintenance contracts cost because the equipment is being "abused?" The few chips overclocked by hobbyists not afraid of screwdrivers will have no impact on the ASP of the millions of chips sold by Intel in a year.

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