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To: Scumbria who wrote (62319)6/18/1999 4:05:00 PM
From: fyo  Respond to of 1572100
 
Scumbrie - Re: It is very hard to understand how cooled parts could be stable at 900MHz, yet production tops out at 600MHz. That sounds like too big a disparity (50%.)

I agree with you. The disparity seems much too high. 25-30% would seem much more reasonable. However, according to these sites... Well, I dug up some references (well, 1 actually):

And after having done some modifications to the Pentium III PCB, Motherboard, Bios Revisions, and the cooling setup we were able to clock it up to an unbelievable and completely stable 993 MHz. The next step was to try and break the 1 GHz barrier, which was possible but somewhat unstable.

(http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/tutorials/718/)

They then did some benchmarks in Quake2, the results of which you can find here:

hardwarecentral.com

--fyodor



To: Scumbria who wrote (62319)6/18/1999 4:07:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1572100
 
Re: "It is very hard to understand how cooled parts could be stable at 900MHz, yet production tops out at 600MHz. That sounds like too big a disparity (50%.)"

Not if you could see some long term reliability data for the 900MHz chilled part.

EP


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