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To: Time Traveler who wrote (50937)2/25/1999 10:20:00 AM
From: DRBES  Respond to of 1571591
 
re: "The evidence is out there."

SURE!!! SURE!!!

Show me (I spent sometime in Missouri.) this evidence.

iNTEL has a history of doing just that. AMD does not!!!

DARBES



To: Time Traveler who wrote (50937)2/25/1999 10:46:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1571591
 
John Y Wang,
RE:"When you buy a P-II, you can easily overclock it to 500MHz+.
When you buy a K6-2, you are stuck with that speed. AMD
cherry-picked the hell out of the 400MHz bin."....

When you bump a P-II from 450 to 500 you put stress on all your peripherals since you run them out of spec. This because you can no longer run at 100 Mhz bus/3=33MHz PCI.

AMD chips bump one speed grade quite easily. Usually no more and unlike the Pentium IIs they are not clocklocked.



To: Time Traveler who wrote (50937)2/25/1999 10:53:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1571591
 
Time Traveller,

I still don't see the evidence. Clock speed is a function of many factors including-

1. Architecture
2. Microarchitecture
3. Implementation
4. Circuit design and libraries
5. Quality of synthesis
6. Process technology

In the absence of any other information, there is no way to distinguish which one is limiting the clock speed.

Scumbria