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To: Elmer who wrote (113093)	5/27/2000 11:07:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1573538

Elmer, In the microprocessor business, a standard of operation temperature has become common to the industry (85C.) Intel went well outside of this standard in a desperate attempt to avoid embarassment by AMD. GHz PIII is not qualified for MP systems, because even with the backside refrigerator it doesn't work reliably. Scumbria

To: Elmer who wrote (113093)	5/27/2000 11:40:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1573538

Elmer, More evidence that PIII 1 GHz is overclocked: Overclocking We were very anxious to see how high the chip would overclock. Would we finally be able to break the gigahertz barrier? At 933MHz, a measly 10% overclock would put us over the top. We whipped out our trusty golden orb cooler, our tube of thermal paste, the BE6-II, an Abit Slocket III and then we went to work. Unfortunately, we were only able to get the processor up to 952MHz. Yes, you read that correctly. firingsquad.com Scumbria