> I've heard just the opposite. The PII can overclock better then
> AMDs...One reason why the PII is in the Slot 1 technology and the AMD is
> still in the Socket.
Yes and No. Intel chips tend to overclock with mode stability, but
the PROCESS of overclocking is more difficult, if I understand correctly.
Intel has made it so that there PII chips will not overclick without
blocking out one of the pins on the chip (where it looks fo a pull-up/down
resistor.
> Also, I don't give my support out to overclocking. I
> admit right now that I don't know much about overclocknig, but what I do
> know is not in favor of it. One comment I've heard (straight from Intel),
> is that there is a crystal on your motherboard and there is one in your cpu.
Of coure Intel would say that!! They don't want people overclocking chips
because, in the end, it costs them (Intel) money!
See the following sites for some good information on hardware,
particularly CPUs:
Brotherhood of the CPU
CPU Review
Tom's Hardware guide (Very good site)
Recently Intel has taken many steps to make overclocking more
difficult. As you can imagine, this has a lot of people upset.
AMD MAY follow suit, but in the meantime their chips are
costing Intel quite a bit of market-share.
> When the dot-frequencies don't match, the system (specifically the Cpu
> Cycles and the Timer Tick's with the Cpu compared to the motherboard Timer)
> becomes unstable.
>
Agreed, there is a the stability factor. That's why you shouldn't
over-overclock your CPU. Most people can usually squeze out another
10-12% out of the CPU. If not, no big deal.
> -Regards
> Peeyush Singh
By the way, I'm not saying you HAVE to overclock.
My only real complaint with the previous post is the
"strait-from-intel" thing.
