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To: Paul Engel who wrote (40929)	11/5/1998 11:41:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) of 1573848

Paul -"Looks like the Uberclockermeister CONFIRMS that the K6-2 needs to be jacked up in operating voltage to get more speed." I already stated this in my message before this, but WHO CARES if the chip requires more voltage to run above 400MHz? The chip is designed to run at 400MHz, and only at 400MHz. According to an AMD employee who posts at a certain messageboard once in a while: "The one thing that bugs me the most that this review posted was that they think that future CPU's have to go above 2.2v to reach higher speeds. This is NOT the case. What they fail to understand is that raising the spec'ed voltage might buy you some marginal speed increase (since that chip didn't clear over it's rated speed at 2.2v). By upping the voltage the transisters perform better up to a certain point. This "certain point" is where you crash OR ruin your CPU."

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