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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (90854)2/1/2000 10:16:00 PM
From: Hans de Vries  Read Replies (2) of 1575631
 
Ted: Re: <Looks like somebody overclocked an Ahtlon 850 DDR to 1.2 GHZ?!> To 1.3 GHz actually! (give or take a few MHz) with a 864 MHz DDR L2 Cache (?!!!) :^D

Hans, what does it mean when someone overclocks a chip like that? Is it showing evidence of the chip's future potential for speed?

This looks like an actual 900 or 950 MHz Athlon sold as a 700 MHz Athlon and then cooled and overclocked to 1.3 GHz. (on a higher voltage most likely).

Real bin splits for commercial chips are based on a temperature of 70 degrees Celcius (inside the package) and the prescribed voltage minus a few % for tolerance. The extra speed you can expect when you cool it down to -40 degrees and supply a voltage close to where one starts damaging the chip (or at least reduce it's live time) is some 40%

If anyone get's an Athlon running at 1.4 GHz then it must be a 1000 MHz or 1050 MHz one.

Hans.
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