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Re: Overclocking a P200...



     Actually when a chip is made (at least by Intel) it's spec'ed out for 
     a certain speed - like P133. But some don't qualify and get sold as 
     lesser chips - like P100. While the best (indicated by the 
     benchmark's) usually go to the BIG customers, Compaq, Dell, etc. In 
     most cases with the Pentium series chips you can go up to the next 
     clock speed and be "ok", but never a guarantee. From what I've been 
     told this is best done with the 90 - 166 chips.
     
     With most hard drives, the top 20% of drives tested go to the BIG 
     customers. The rest end up at your local Computer shop. This is why 
     the BIG name systems can give you the 3-5 year guarantee on there 
     drives, like NetFRAME systems (they give a 5 year guarantee). Just in 
     case you were wondering.
     
     David


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Subject: Re: Overclocking a P200...
Author:  owner-linux-il (owner-linux-il@linux.org.il) at unix,mime
Date:    12/12/96 4:01


I've read few years back that the only difference between the low speed 
and high speed microprocessors is in their quality control. They 
manufacture the CPUs using the same design but during the quality 
control which apparently is a very expensive procedure they allow 
smaller margin and perform more extensive testings for the high speed. 
So that means that you can probably overclock your CPU but at your own 
risk. Ofcourse at times, there are fundamental changes and then your own 
risk may be greater.
     
      Yuval El-Hanany