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To: tejek who wrote (87124)	8/23/1999 11:54:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Tejerk - Re: "Guess what?!! More good news for the Athlon!! It seems that Tom's Hardware has the Athlon, THE FASTEST CHIP IN ALL THE LAND, clocking in at 700 and 750 MHz. Not only was it as stable "as a rock" but it did not need additional cooling. ISN'T THAT GREAT!!" Yes - that is great. The 10 million AthFLOPS out there are sure boosting AMD's sales and stock price. As for the Coppafeel = I think Intel may introduce it at only 550 MHz - maybe a "little higher". In the words of dUMBERBES: STAY TUNED !!!!! Paul

To: tejek who wrote (87124)	8/23/1999 12:04:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "Guess what?!! More good news for the Athlon!! It seems that Tom's Hardware has the Athlon, THE FASTEST CHIP IN ALL THE LAND, clocking in at 700 and 750 MHz. " Keep in mind that all the performance of all chips degrade over time due to hot electron effects. Just because it runs at 700-750 when new doesn't mean it will run at that speed over it's lifetime. EP

To: tejek who wrote (87124)	8/23/1999 4:08:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 186894

<It seems that Tom's Hardware has the Athlon, THE FASTEST CHIP IN ALL THE LAND, clocking in at 700 and 750 MHz. Not only was it as stable "as a rock" but it did not need additional cooling.> First of all, Tom never told us how to overclock the Athlon. That in itself should raise some flags of suspicion, except to Tom's target audience which consists mainly of rowdy AMD fans. Second, I would never consider something like that to be as "stable as a rock." I clocked my Pentium II 266 to 300 MHz for a while. Everything seemed to run rock solid for weeks, until just recently when a few disk corruption errors forced me to uninstall entire games and application suites. I can't say that the overclocking was the primary factor, but it could have been. Third, Coppermine is coming out in late October, and in respectable speeds. You can bet on it. Fourth, Athlon is using some 0.18 micron methods to achieve its current high clock speeds. AMD's transition to the 0.18 micron process won't buy Athlon as much clock speed as Intel's transition will buy for the Pentium III. And fifth, we INTC investors are currently enjoying all-time highs in the stock price. Why isn't AMD, even after all of the Athlon hoopla? Tenchusatsu