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To: Time Traveler who wrote (62352)	8/12/1998 10:58:00 AM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Time Traveler, Re: "P-II/450! Once I get it, I am going to overclock it to 500." You can certainly do as you want once you buy a PC, and maybe you have experience overclocking CPU chips. Still, it's a highly recommended against practice by chip manufacturers. Also, to me, overclocking what is already the highest clock frequency CPU in the family, is asking to really be put into never-never land. You're already out on the edge there, although Intel, as a conservative company, I'm sure has more frequency margin built into final test binning than anyone else. Still, problems could be overheating (which always leads to lower reliability and life, even if it looks to be running OK), flakey operation or no operation. You've heard of the Net Nanny? I guess I sound like the Chip Nanny. Tony

To: Time Traveler who wrote (62352)	8/12/1998 11:05:00 AM
From: Maxwell	Respond to of 186894

Time Traveller: <<Because of this shortage, no wonder I have a very difficult time of finding a P-II/450! Once I get it, I am going to overclock it to 500.>> I am curious as well. Please post the results when you get one. My hunch is that the 450MHz is probably "cherry picking" from the current 0.25um PII process with 450MHz being the tail-end of the Gaussian distribution. Thus 500MHz is probably out of the current speed envelop until Intel tweak their design or go to lower "poly gate CD" of less than 0.18um. Maxwell