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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (77378)	3/29/1999 3:02:00 PM
From: Saturn V	Respond to of 186894

I agree that only MHz sells in the consumer market space. Reliability will only sell in environments like Severs or for Aerospace applications.[ The reliability of most chips far exceeds the software reliability and does not become a marketable issue.] Ref- <However, I'll bet hobbyists out there are going to try and decipher that CPU ID code to increase their chances of successfully overclocking Celerons to ridiculous speeds > I hope that the CPU ID does not encode the speed the part is capable of. The ID should just be a Serial No, and the speed and other parameters should only be available on a DataBase which resides inside a computer at Intel. If any performance information is encoded in the CPU ID, it will be hacked or leaked by ex-employees eventually, and the scenario you describe will come to pass.