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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (100479)3/29/2000 2:33:00 AM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (2) of 1577025
 
[Overclocked 440BX vs. 820]

I don't consider those benchmarks to be valid, because an overclocked 440BX is running the SDRAM so far out of spec that it cannot be shipped in that manner

The 440BX was overclocked, but it is only because Intel chose not to release a version of BX that supports 133 MHz FSB / memory. Are you suggesting that is incapable of releasing 133 MHz BX equivalent? Tiny Via did it.

As far as SDRAM running out of spec, you are right, running with CAS-2 is out of spec of most PC-133 RAM out there, but there was no demand until very recently for PC-133 of any variety, since there was no motherboard support for PC-133. Since this has changed, and there is a real market out there for PC-133 memory, it will not take long for CAS-2 to became widely available.

If you recall, when PC-100 came out, CAS-2 variety was hard to get as well.

I checked this with a few coworkers, who confirmed this for me. They tried the same thing that Tom did with less success (in stability) than Tom claimed to achieve.

Are you saying that Intel employees are not capable of overclocking a system? The key is good memory, if you want CAS-2. BX chip can get hot, but you can replace heatsink with a heatsink with fan attached to bring the temperature down to normal.

Joe
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