OT, But interesting

[Tim Schmidt]

>From: Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu>
>Reply-To: pfaffben@msu.edu
>To: "Tim Schmidt" <computer_holic@hotmail.com>
>CC: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
>Subject: Re: OT, But interesting
>Date: 06 Aug 2000 10:15:02 -0400
>
>"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.

Just for you Ben, here's the addy of the real picture:

http://www.hardocp.com/news_images/2000/aug2k/smalldie.jpg

Also, I wanted to explain wht I was trying to infer about the higher-end 
Intel CPU's.  Since Linux seems to like more conservative settings (from my 
experience) I wouldn't reccomend running it on a PIII-C 1 or 1.13Ghz.  They 
would like be unstable (in fact, a large percentage of the 1.13Ghz models 
won't even run Windows stabily -- insert windows jokes here).  If you're 
looking to run Linux on a GHz box, AMD's the only way to go.

>
> > 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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