[ale] AMD 5X86 chips...

[David Chow]

Daniel Newcombe wrote:
> > Now, what I would like to know is, how does a 
> > AMD486DX4-120 (clock tripled 40 mhz) compare to vernard's 
> > AMD5x86-133 (clock quadrupled 33mhz)?
> 
> According to the survey on overclocking I found via yahoo...all the 
> people who have tried to overclock the dx4-120 (2 or 3 of them) said 
> that it just plain didn't work.  At least it didn't kill the chip, 
> but I'm not gonna try it on mine - for fear of becoming a statistic.
> 
> Otherwise, I guess it would depend on which has the better throughput.
> My guess is that Cyrix has worked on that and V's would still go 
> better.

	the cpu vernard has is NOT overclocked.  It is simply
  QUADRUPLED versus TRIPLED.  It's based on a stable base speed of 33 mhz

  dave
> 
> Anyone overclocked a 300Mhz Alpha??? :)
> 
> Dan Newcombe
> User Services
> newcombe at aa.csc.peachnet.edu
> "Huh-huh"
> 


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