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To: Petz who wrote (68791)	1/24/2002 11:53:45 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"The surprising thing about the change in performance from a 2.2G NW P4 to a 3G NW P4 is that, supposedly, the memory was only operating at 138 MHz (DDR), about 5% overclocking and the PCI bus was supposedly also at +5%. So I found the speedup (92%) totally unbelievable." How about a crazy theory? What if the out-of-range core frequency made BIOS so confused that it forgot to turn off some secret performance-enhancing features in P4 that were not unleashed yet? Just kidding. I prefer a system timer fault explanation. - Ali