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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Goutam who wrote (83947)12/22/1999 2:27:00 PM
From: Scot  Read Replies (1) of 1572066
 
My understanding is that there are no control lines available from the Athlon module to program/change the Cache divider, and hence they couldn't provide this feature on their thingy. By increasing the cache divider (or slowing down the Cache clock) one can attempt to overclock the CPU even higher without worrying about Cache failure. I'm not sure how the cache divider can be changed from the default setting - may be through the Bios?

I don't know, could be.. I sent an e-mail to the author and the manufacturer. The author tells me that he got the chip already changed (perhaps the board and the chip?). This makes me a little less excited about the article because it suggests the chip may have been cherry-picked to overclock at such a high speed. Still could be a good deal even if you can't overclock to 800 (at $80 for the unit). I'll let you know what the manufacturer says about this.

-Scot
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