Re: what is the //gs?

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In article <19991127035710.08375.00000578@ng-ck1.aol.com>,
Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>AMD's 486 chips were more overclockable than Intel's.
>In fact, there is a refrigerated system that's AMD
>endorsed that allows the K6-III to be significantly
>overclocked.  There are plans to combine the system
>with the Athlon for eventual gigahertz performance!

Actually, Kryotech (the company that makes these refrigerated systems) has
been using the K7 for some time now, and just recently introduced a 1-GHz
system (built around a seriously-overclocked 700-MHz processor).  Theirs is
the first x86 system on the market to crack the "GHz barrier."  Here are
some links to follow:

http://www.kryotech.com/sgindex.asp
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/99q4/991115/index.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/11/21/1127248&mode=nested

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