Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:15:29 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: Charles Burns <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> Cc: <seanp@loudcloud.com>, <jgowdy@home.com>, <lplist@closedsrc.org>, <kris@obsecurity.org>, <mwlist@lanfear.com>, <freebsd@sysmach.com?>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: the AMD factor in FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104192214100.2730-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <F256cvsq9IcVux1Zcn80000366c@hotmail.com>
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Charles Burns wrote: > > > Bob's Athlon 1000 may well have been on the exact same silicon wafer as > > > Joe's Athlon 1300 and Sam's Athlon 800. They test each chip and then > >mark > > > them accordingly. > > > > Not really... > > I have seen this many times before, not only with my very own CPU but in > other circumstances ad well. Remember all the press a few years back about > how a certain marking of P2-300s would overclock to 450MHz and even > 500--when 450MHz was the fastest P2 at the time? That was a remarking. > Actually why delve into the past? Take almost any newly manufactured low-end > or mid-range chip today, even intel chips. Yields have been very good, > especially for AMD. Quite a few of these chips are remarked well below what > their test value was. I have heard (but haven't verified at all or seen for > myself) that some of the latest Athlons of series AXIA and AZIA are labelled > at around 1500MHz. I heard someone actually got one of the AXIA's to hit 2Ghz, don't know the truth to that one though. > > > 1200's, AMD will sell 1200's as 900s. They are all the same chips made > >at > > > the same time from the same plant (other than Durons) and all cost the > >same > > > to manufacture. > > > > Maybe the ones that don't past certain tests are relabeled as the > >lower end ones... > > Do you think that AMD and Intel have a different set of manufacturing > equipment for each and every CPU revision? How inneficient would that be, > balancing the production capacity of each one with the market demand. This > is actually fairly public knowledge. Please feel free to contact either > manufacturer on the issue... Don't trust me, trust the source. Ofcourse not since that would cost a fortune... :) I guess the way they do it is like memory, those that don't meet the highest spec and resold as a lower spec. Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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