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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (63611)8/30/1998 11:22:00 PM
From: rudedog  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Bill -
the manufacturing processes yield a speed curve which usually approximates a normal distribution (unless some process anomaly chops the high side of the curve). there are usually chips which will work just fine when overclocked, just as there are others which will not work correctly even at the design clock rate (these latter would be fallout unless there is a lower speed part). I don't know what the distribution curve is for mendicino but I would expect that the design center is similar to PII, which would imply that many of the chips could be safely overclocked.

There is however no guarantee that the particular part you happen to get will safely exceed the specified speed, it may meet the clock spec and no more. About the only way to assure that chips can be overclocked is to buy a big bunch of them, run your own tests, and develop your own speed distribution. People who blindly overclock are asking for trouble.
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