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To: Brian Hutcheson who wrote (2935)	12/17/1997 1:57:00 AM
From: Investor A	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6843

Brian, I believe that yield has improved more than most investors believe . One reason is the latest K6-233 price of $232 , there are other reasons which I will not discuss . What other reasons? Please don't hold them from me. :)

To: Brian Hutcheson who wrote (2935)	12/17/1997 9:04:00 AM
From: Bobby P.	Respond to of 6843

Yet another reason to go AMD -- overclocking! Found this on Usenet. It's suppose to be on pg 79 in the Jan 98 Computer Shopper. Please read the second to the last paragraph for Intel's plan to "protect the consumer." (What a crock!) I have overclocked on my last two PCs with no problem -- Intel just doesn't want people getting more without paying for it! It's no different than tweaking the carberator on your car to get better performance, IMO. I'm currently running an AMD 233 at 262 Mhz and it's faster than an Intel 233MMX overclocked to 292. The chipset on my motherboard is the AMD 640 chipset -- the Shuttle HOT-603. AMD rules (just the stock stinks right now :( ). Bobby ------------------------------- Unsafe at Higher Speed? INTEL MOVES TO ELIMINATE OVERCLOCKING Speed-hungry PC hackers will be frustrated, but consumers stand to benefit from Intel Corp.'s move to quash overclocking-- the hod-rod process of increasing a processor's clock speed beyond its factory specification. Though Intel and other chipmakers strongly discourage the practice--pointing to its risk of problems and system crashes, mostly caused by increased heat--some sophisticated PC enthusiasts have overclocked their desktops' CPUs for years in search of extra performance. "If people are doing this at home, they take the risk themselves," says Intel representative Chuck Malloy. "The real problem is that some [vendors] overclock these chips and then sell them as a higher speed." Reports of such cases abound in Usenet newsgroups and message boards. For instance, Donna Moore of Clemmons, N.C., says that, after the Comtrade PC she bought in June 1996 began crashing repeatedly, she discovered the 166MHz Pentium she'd paid for was actually an overclocked 120MHz chip. BLAH, BLAH..(Section cut out) To further eliminate consumer confusion, Intel has developed special "overspeed protector" circuitry that prevents processor overclocking altogether. The firm declines to say exactly how it works or even which CPUs now have it, but according to Malloy, all of Intel's processors will eventually be so equipped. When that happens, overclocking an Intel CPU will be technically impossible. Until then, if you find you've purchased a system with a renamed processor, call the vendor for a replacement. -story written by Dan Costa