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Wolfgang Preiss wrote:
> 
> Byron Forbes <hosh@ar.com.au> wrote:

> 
> > Also, the "A" is fully tested and proven at 450mhz, whereas the std Celery
> > seems to be limited to about 400mhz.
> 
> What do you mean by "fully tested"? From the reports I read, it seems
> to work great at 450MHz, usually, but I'm still not convinced that
> overclocking a chip at a rate of 50% will be good for it in the long
> run (by long, I mean "more than 6 months"). I'm not so much concerned
> about the CPU - the Mendocino is one of the latest designs and Intel,
> like them or not, have a pretty good and consistent quality in their
> fabs - but 450MHz is *a lot* of speed for a L2 cache.

  I am going by all the "no problem" reports I have gotten. Basically, the core is the
same as a 450 (from my memory?) and the most limiting factor with most OCing is L2 cache,
the type that is not "on dye" (PIIs) as it is with the 300A/333. It is early days of
course and we shall just have to wait and see if this on dye cache has a decent life span
at 450 mhz. All looks good so far :)

-- 
 Byron Forbes
 Captain of Team Lightning Bolt

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    and

 http://www.frontiernet.net/~godsoe/bolt/home.htm
