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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (40920)	11/6/1998 1:25:00 AM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1573458

Regarding the news about K6-2-400 overclocking to 500 easily: Thie article is very important for two reasons: processor.org 1. The fact that it overclocks easily to 500 MHz, running Winbench, 3D Winbench, etc. means that we will soon see a K6-2-450 2. Even without a BIOS upgrade to enable write-combining, this chip performs clock-for-clock with the Pentium II (well, OK, maybe 2% slower). The improvement in the core CPU is more extensive than I expected and extends the life of the K6-2 by another quarter. The Winstone results for 500 MHz with 100 MHz L2 are simply amazing. Tomorrow I will hopefully be able to calculate the core CPU speed improvement, but definitely the K6-3-400, with full speed on-chip L2 cache will blow the Pentium II-450 out of the water, and the K6-3-450 will blow a Pentium II-500 out of the water. Petz