OT, But interesting

[Daniel R . Kilbourne]

hmmm....I got a side-by-side picture of 2 Pentium III chips :)


Ben Pfaff extolled:
> "Tim Schmidt" <computer_holic@hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> > http://www.hardocp.com/news_images/2000/aug2k/080500b.html
> 
> I'm unable to read that article with lynx, w3m, or links: all I
> get is links to three "IFRAME"s, which just contain ads, no
> content.
> 
> > It appears that Intel is not only factory overclocking their
> > CPUs [...]
> 
> Isn't that an oxymoron, or a misnomer?  As I understand it, when
> you go to a chip fab, there aren't separate assembly lines
> cranking out 60 ns and 70 ns, nor are there separate assembly
> lines cranking out 866 MHz and 933 MHz Pentium IIIs, and so on.
> Rather, each chip that comes off the line is tested for its
> performance, where they crank up the speed until it fails at N
> MHz, and then they sell it as an (N - delta) MHz chip.
> 
> On the other hand, overclocking is running a chip at a faster
> speed than recommended by the manufacturer.  So the factory
> *can't* overclock chips.  They could recommend that you run it
> faster than it would actually work, I suppose, but in that case
> it's a defective chip and you should be able to exchange for a
> working one.
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