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

To: Time Traveler who wrote (42035)	11/21/1998 9:50:00 AM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572713

Time Traveller: <<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,>> 1) You can overclock a K6-2-400MHz to 500MHz. A 333MHz K6-2 is not a XT core and was manufactured on a different process. The XT core is on the 380MHz and 400MHz version. Old version like my 350MHz can't be overclocked. 2) K6-Sharptooth-400MHz beats PII-450MHz as demonstrated at COmdex by 10-15%. K6-Sharptooth has old Pentium bus at 100MHz while PII-450 has DIB with backside L2 at 225MHz. DIB is supposed to be superior than socket 7 but in reality not so. How can a 400MHz socket 7 beats a 450MHz DIB PII? What you have done is based your conclusion on 1 DATA POINT! You are trying to extrapolate the curvature based 1 DATA POINT. Case is wide open. AMD is catching up to Intel fast. Maxwell