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

To: Ali Chen who wrote (41977)	11/21/1998 2:29:00 AM
From: Time Traveler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572649

Ali, I have done more hacking on this new K6-2 system I am putting together. Well, the motherboard with ALi chipset does not run beyond 83MHz. AGP is fine. It turned out that K6-2/333 cannot be overclocked to 366MHz. Since I got what I paid for, I am more or less satisfied with the system, ironically. However, with the difficulty of K6-2/333 failing to run at even next speed bin up, this tells me that AMD left no room for design margin. AMD might have cherry-picked 333MHz speed bins, but whether they did or not, AMD is really skating on thin ice in terms of engineering. Because I can overclock a P-II/450 to 500MHz without any problems, this tells me that Intel is still the king. No way any Socket-7 CPUs are going to survive long in the near future. Case closed, Time Traveler