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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brian Hutcheson who wrote (43717)12/21/1998 2:36:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (1) of 1573966
 
Brian, I think you are incorrect about overclocking. I think that when they make these cPUs there is a natural scatter of sppeeds due to randon variations and they try to optimise them for consistency and for maximum speed for any particular design. So certain celerons that are identical in all respects are different in speeds?, As they get better at making them with higher yields and faster speeds I feel they will not detune the line to make some slow celerons and they make some fast ones. I think they will make them all as identical as possible and optimised to the more expensive speed bins.
So that is why you are wrong. Now if they design a new faster cfeleron to go 400 that may well differ from the old one that was only 300-333, but the same variations will apply to the new one. There will be faster and slower ones for sale, but as the process gets totally(if ever) defined they will find they have no slow ones to sell and loads of fast ones. Since they all have the same cost they will mark some slow and some fast. So overclocking a 350 to 400 is perfectly good technically and since it is a 400 chip it will run fine.
going over the 400 to say 500 with different voltages, clocks, cooling etc does mean some risks are taken and some people try to do it, and most succeed. There are some who cook their chips though....them's the risks, as they say. A business should not do this as they often have more on the line than speeding up some game, and few businesses will do this.

Bill
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