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To: Petz who wrote (120578)	12/4/2000 9:46:55 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "The fact that the Vid pins are set to 1.7 rather than 1.75 indicates that Intel is retesting selected 933 MHz chips, boosting the voltage, and checking if it will operate at 1 GHz. If so, they remark the chip, but since the Vid fuses have already been blown, the buyer of the chip has to override the now-incorrect voltage" Other interesting detail and speculation deleted. Nice investigative work John but I don't think you're right on all counts. Intel blows fuses on their parts to select the clock multiplier. They can't be retesting parts already binned as 933MHz. And why should they? They would just test parts at 1GHz first and for those that fail they would just drop down until they pass and then bin them out, all in one socketing. No need to retest. They have that flexibility. EP