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"Pietro E. Teofilatto" wrote:

> Alfredo Camaiti wrote:
>
> > All you say is true. Just pay attention to the type of Celeron 300A.
> > There are two type of Celeron 300A : one marked MALAY and other COSTARICA.
> > The first one is the right choice to overclock, the second one doesn't work.
> > When Intel found (maybe thay know this before) that many people used Celeron 300A
> > at 450MHz has modified the L2 cache so that doesn't work at higher frequency.
>
> ... What are you saying about ?
> (per il volgo: che c...o stai dicendo ?)
>
> 1. Costarica products (first digit = 0) are almost fully operable at 450 Mhz too,
> varying the Vcore from 2.0 to 2.3, depending on different PCB revisions; I'm very
> happy to confortably clock my Mendo @ 464 giving it only 2.0 V, from my Abit BH6.
>
> 2. No way to modify L2 Cache design to slow down processor or to make overclocking
> more difficult: base die design and characteristcs should be structurally modified,
> so the production process shoud be revised and costs would rise up, making the modify
> an economic nonsense.
>
> Ciao!
> --
> Pietro E. Teofilatto

And what are you talkin' about too ....
Just take a look at this link :

http://www.zetabyte.com/giki'sgold/celeron300a/Celeron%20Costarica%20300a.htm

You can see the tests made on the two different type of Mendocino 300A.

As you can see the Costarica model is more difficult to overclock. It's not words.Just the facts.

Best regards Alfredo