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In article <308859694wnr@xabcs.demon.co.uk>
           Julian@xabcs.demon.co.uk "J A F Bradbury" writes:

>John Beardmore <wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk> writes:
>> Older P/120s generally worked; I have one, it's great. New ones don't
>> overclock according to his experiments.
>
>Shortly no P5s (and probably the same for P6s) will overclock as Intel
>are introducing micro-code to prevent this. Reasons are to avoid deception.
>
>Clocking a P5-120 and selling as P5-133 makes quite a bit of money.
>For a P6 ... this would make an obscenely large amount of money ;)

And of course it makes more money for intel !

They could just embed the nominal clock speed info in the CPU stepping
level info, or at least the same way and then leave the actual clock
speed decision to the user !

Or they could write the speed on the edge of the chip...

Or the bottom !

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John Beardmore