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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (41453)11/13/1998 4:20:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Read Replies (1) of 1574001
 
Intel may put an end to overclocking:

cpumadness.com

"Intel has apparently had it with overclockers. Word is that they will be sticking in an EEPROM I.C. in all their future P2/Celeron
chips to stop them from being overclocked. This will also be included in the Katmai. This EEPROM I.C. will identify the chip for
the motherboard, and give all needed information, including voltage, FSB speed, multiplier, serial number, etc. If the chip is
run at any settings other than the ones stored in the EEPROM, it will simply cease the function until the normal settings are
again restored.

Supposedly this is to stop the large market for remarked chips. Intel's high quality yields has led to a lot of remarking of chips
and selling them at higher speeds.

Now I don't know about you, but I'm pissed. There are other ways of preventing remarking of the chip, such as giving a warning
in the BIOS to specify what speed the chip is actually supposed to run at. This method puts a stop to all overclocking/tweaking of
the chip. I'm not sure if there's any way to override this. I've talked to AOpen about it and they said they'd try to get some info
and get back to me so i guess until then we're the dark. "
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