RE: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird & ka7-100]

[Abe]

from what I've read about that chip it was actually a factory overclocked chip 
to begin with.  When it turned out to be reallyy unstable they just set it 
back to its original speed rating which was around 800 or 900 mhz.

>===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =====
>This is true about overclocking destroying hardware.  Some chips can't even
>run stably at their intended clockspeed.  Intel's PIII 1.3GHz had so many
>bloody problems they finally concluded the only way to get it to run cool
>enough as well as stably was to UNDER-clock it....I think they eventually
>got it running nice at about 800Mhz.
>
>Lonny Selinger

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