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To: Mani1 who wrote (68074)	8/9/1999 4:00:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586821

Mani - RE: "here's even more to say about PIII 600. It's strange enough that Intel is using the old overclocker-trick of raising the core-voltage a little bit. PIII 600 is using 2.05 instead of the 2.00 V used by PIII 450 - 550, which makes you wonder since when 0.05 V are supposed to make the big difference." I just got to that part also. Looks like Intel had to pull an AMD and JACK UP the voltage! What happened to Intel's SUPERIOR process technology?

To: Mani1 who wrote (68074)	8/9/1999 11:17:00 AM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1586821

Mani, <There's even more to say about PIII 600. It's strange enough that Intel is using the old overclocker-trick of raising the core-voltage a little bit. PIII 600 is using 2.05 instead of the 2.00 V used by PIII 450 - 550, which makes you wonder since when 0.05 V are supposed to make the big difference. Well, a lot of people are currently reporting problems with heat-induced crashes of PIII 600 and you start wondering if the release of PIII 600 was some kind of desperate move of Intel to save it from major embarrassment. The opposite could be the case now, if it indeed turns out that Pentium III 600 is not running really stable. The Pentium III 600 processors in our lab have failed several times too at 600 MHz, and this although our systems are always open. We'll have a close look into this issue right after the Athlon-review. > Tenchusatsu says all new systems have stability problems and since Intel rushed the PIII-600 to beat AMD at 600MHz - may be they just have a few more than usual. Now, Intel is rushing CuMine to catchup with AMD on the 650s - may be we will see a few more of these. ;-) Seriously, AMD have been rumored to be sampling 700MHz+ Athlons so the PC OEMS should be stress testing them now to catch any minor problems. This should help AMD come out with more solid parts than CuMines which will be coming fresh out of the Oven. Chuck