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To: Kealoha who wrote (60657)	7/17/1998 4:22:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Kealoha - Re: " Love it when you get worked up on AMD. VIVA INTC!!" Yes - the SIMPLE fact - that no one bothers to talk about - is that the K6-2 part was designed to run at 350 Mhz with a 100 MHz FSB and 3.5 x on-chip clock multiplier. BUT THE PART CAN'T MEET THAT SPPED SPEC and AMD WAS LOCKED INTO THE 3.5x multiplier. So, they had to goof-ball the external clock, making ir 95 Mhz instead of 100 Mhz so the K6-2 would clock internally at 332.5 Mhz, a speed which AMD WAS HOPING WOULD WORK! Well, AMD seems to have trouble even making 332.5 Mhz parts. So - I would expect AMD to JACK UP THE VOLTAGE AGAIN - from 2.2 volts to 2.3 or 2.4 volts or more - just to meet that speed target - at a real reliability risk! Paul