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To: Charles R who wrote (82941)12/14/1999 7:44:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1571763
 
Chuck - RE: "Speaking of which - I have not yet seen any overclockers reports of 750s. Did anybody catch anything yet? Would be interesting to know how far the core can be pushed."

I don't know about the 750's OC ability, but here's some good info about the 750.

From Ace's:

"Remember the super-linear increase in performance with the later Athlons at 700 MHz compared to previous ones? I got an interesting mail from yet another AMD insider. The information is indeed a bit dated, but read below:

Athlon originally had capacity for 72 in-flight instructions in the reorder buffer. This was bumped to 78 instructions in a recent version of the silicon since it was determined to be a bottleneck for performance. As a result, the current silicon can reorder a few more instructions than the original.

Looking to pick up an Athlon? It just might pay to get a newer one!"

aceshardware.com

The Athlon is only going to get faster.