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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (70038)	8/27/1999 9:42:00 AM
From: grok	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573592

RE: <The issue isn't stability at 600 MHz. Stability at 600 MHz is FINE. The issue is stability at 650 MHz. For the first time in a long time, it's tough to overclock an Intel chip by a mere 8% and still keep it stable.> I think that Intel has mastered the art of testing micros to determine their highest speed with fine granularity. This may sound easy but it's not. Most people over test in order to ensure that they don't ship parts that fail under some rare condition. Intel has so much experience with P6 core and with binning in general that they can now extract every MHz from their chips and not leave anything on the table. This means that top of the line chips won't over clock worth a darn.