Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (40929)	11/5/1998 11:03:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573458

Paul: <<Looks like the Uberclockermeister CONFIRMS that the K6-2 needs to be jacked up in operating voltage to get more speed>> I have an old K6-2-350MHz and couldn't get it to boot at 400MHz even at Vcc=2.6V. The K6-2 is rated maximum at 2.5V. Look like the new K6-2-400 has some design and process improvement. This new chip has enough leg room to run at 500MHz! You gave me a great idea. AMD should release the K6-2-500MHz rated at 2.3V IMMEDIATELY and sell it to OEMs for ASP=$200 as soon as possible. People want MHz and don't give a damn on Vcc. This way AMD will beat Intel in MHz and get higher ASP. This will surely lure DELL to AMD at first announcement. After all Intel hasn't released any 500MHz yet. I'll forward this post to Toni Beckman of AMD now. Maxwell

To: Paul Engel who wrote (40929)	11/5/1998 11:41:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573458

Paul -"Looks like the Uberclockermeister CONFIRMS that the K6-2 needs to be jacked up in operating voltage to get more speed." I already stated this in my message before this, but WHO CARES if the chip requires more voltage to run above 400MHz? The chip is designed to run at 400MHz, and only at 400MHz. According to an AMD employee who posts at a certain messageboard once in a while: "The one thing that bugs me the most that this review posted was that they think that future CPU's have to go above 2.2v to reach higher speeds. This is NOT the case. What they fail to understand is that raising the spec'ed voltage might buy you some marginal speed increase (since that chip didn't clear over it's rated speed at 2.2v). By upping the voltage the transisters perform better up to a certain point. This "certain point" is where you crash OR ruin your CPU."