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To: StockMan who wrote (10075)	12/3/1997 10:39:00 PM
From: Satish C. Shah	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Re:This does not connect with you being a hardware engineer. The K6/233 was initially speced at 3.2 volts. Increasing the voltage to 3.3 volts, implies that the chip is now operating at the max/outside the limits of the spec. Being a hardware engineer, you should know that, at these levels, reliability and the life of the chip is at risk. Furthermore check the heat generated. On a motherboard, Pentium and associated logic runs from 3.3v and other stuff at 5volts. the power supply has a tolerance of +-5%. If AMD raised the voltage from 3.2 to 3.3, may be that was to bring it in compliance with other logic but 0.1 volt is 3% different still within the tolerance of the power supply, not max/outside the specs. Higher voltage ( +0.1v ) will raise the dissipation by 6%. May be they increased the cfm of the cpu fan to take care of 6% additional dissipation. My point stands 3% increase in voltage and corresponding 6% rise in the power dissipation will not make the chip JUNK. Regards, Satish