Paul- "With Standard cooling, an overclocked K6-2 at 450 MHz wouldn't even boot!
Cryogenic cooling was required to get the part to even BOOT at 450 MHz."
What speed is a K6-2 350 rated to run at? You and I know it isn't 450. WHO cares if a K6-2 350 won't run at 450??? It is designed to run at 350, and 350 only. Sure, overclockers may get it to run at 400, but there are no guarantees, only that it will run at 350.
You see, AMD is smart. Their processors are sold at the maximum MHz level that the chip will run at safe and stable. That way, AMD gets the full amount of money it can from each chip.
Intel, on the other hand, while not stupid, is not exactly smart either. Intel sells PII 300's that can easily be overclocked to 450MHz. They lose over a hundred dollars for each PII 300 chip someone buys expecting to run it at 450MHz. While that quantity is not much, every dollar counts, especially when your retail PC market share is eroding as time passes.
In this scenario, who's business plan makes more sense? AMD's or Intel's?
"AMD HAS TO REDESIGN THE K6-2 CORE or
the process - since Anand had to JACK UP THE VOLTAGE to 2.4 volts to get a
K6-2 to toggle at 400 MHz. "
Well, according to the website listed a few messages ago, the K6-2 ran at it normal voltage, 2.2, at 400MHz, the chip's rated speed, without a glitch. |
