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To: Michael DaKota who wrote (41517)	11/16/1998 10:56:00 AM
From: Michael DaKota	Respond to of 1574046

All pIIs since quite a while back, have -bus speed AND -multipl. lock, the Bus-speed lock is just not activated! Found an article at bxboards.pair.net from some one who had a chat with an intel rep, and briefly this is what they discussed : The man had a chance to talk to a regional rep for Intel because of the company he worked for. He asked him about over-clocking and the SL2W8/SL2YK chips in particular. The intel-rep went through a long speech about how the fab process results in different clock speed chips and basically avoided the question of if the SL2s are really P2-450s. In the topic of overclocking, however, he did give the man an interesting answer. He said that Intel has been putting a form of a circuit breaker type deal in their P2 processors almost since the beginning for testing. These circuit breakers, if activated, can lock a processor at a specific bus speed, the same way the current chips have multiplier locks for top speed. If Intel really did want to do it, they could easily lock, say a P2-300 at a 4.5 multiplier and 66 MHz bus speed. The rep the man spoke to was _very_ clear that Intel has had this capibility for a while now and just have only used it in in-house testing rather that in widespread release. --------------------------------------------------------------------- FHWL, Michael da Kota