Teri,
Tom Pabst is a German (now living in England, I believe). His Web site is heavily x86 oriented, including compatibles, with much advice regarding his experiments with overclocking of various processors on various motherboards.
He is well-known to this thread because of Tom's tests of a pre-release version of Pentium II and comparisons with Pentium Pro among others at the same clock speeds. Based on his these comparisons, Tom panned Pentium II (and, based on other information, glorified the AMD K6). [A speculation was that AMD's German connections might have been a factor.]
Intel apparently got upset at Tom's reliance on a pre-release [not final version] Pentium II system [which was apparently under non-disclosure to whoever Tom borrowed it from], and also I guess the fact that Tom didn't seem to get it that Pentium II was about scalability to much higher clock rates than Pentium Pro, and also reduced costs and increased volumes for manufacture, not about outdoing Pentium Pro at the same clock speed (except for special cases). So various words were exchanged between them.
Later, Tom apparently saw the error of his ways, and Intel apparently decided to make nice, so Tom now does a more balanced job of reporting on what is happening.
During this period, Paul Engel gave Tom the moniker "ubersclockenmeister" (or similar spelling), owing to Tom's "mastery" of overclocking in disregard for those effects it might have on the reliability and/or longevity of the processor, which as you might expect Paul did not appreciate, to put it mildly.
[I just added the "Intelfreund" part, in reference to Tom's conversion. < g >]
The factual information on the site appears to be reliable, so far as I can tell. I did not see any surprises there - the information appeared to be essentially what Intel has stated in other forms, but I did not check the details.
Tom's Web site is at:
sysdoc.pair.com
Best regards.
Arno |
