Actually the BIOS will pick up only the speed from the board, not the CPUID, that is digitally embedded in the silicon of the chip. Yes the K6III has it etched on the chip.
The way the AMD K6III is marked on the chip is very hard to change. The speed is very clearly marked on the chipface, partially etched into the metal on top. Just pop your fan off and take a peek. Some of the older K62 chips had black painted on markings that could be faked pretty easily. I have a K6III 450 at home, overclocked (intentionally) to 500, runs great, just watch the voltage and make sure you have a really good fan.
I agree with you on this. If the customer asks to have his 350 overclocked to 400, well fine. But shops that just do it and market it as a 400, should be put out of business. There are several in the Detroit area who do this. Makes me sick...
Lets not forget the practice of putting used parts in machines. Which they got sured for big time. Unfortunately, it still occurs with that microscopic advisory on the bottom of their boxes that states it may contain some refurbished parts. At least NEC is dropping the line.
Well, I have been in the industry for about 15 years, with PCs that is... And in just about every class of chip, from the 286 on up, AMD has always seemed to produce a faster product in the end. Also, AMD doesn't allow a chip to go out with major bugs just to rush it into use the way Intel seems to. With the introduction fo the Athlon, AMD has finally taken a significant lead in performance, reliability, and overall compatability. Maybe if Intel spent more time working on their product and less time on the Bunny people and their marketing, then I would use them more. As it is, I manage the network for a fairly large ISP and ALL of our PC based servers run on AMD, have never even had a crash on a system. Last job I had was mostly Intel and I tell you, crashes and problems were a daily occurance. AMD 4ever
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Actually the BIOS will pick up only the speed from the board, not the CPUID, that is digitally embedded in the silicon of the chip. Yes the K6III has it etched on the chip.
The way the AMD K6III is marked on the chip is very hard to change. The speed is very clearly marked on the chipface, partially etched into the metal on top. Just pop your fan off and take a peek. Some of the older K62 chips had black painted on markings that could be faked pretty easily. I have a K6III 450 at home, overclocked (intentionally) to 500, runs great, just watch the voltage and make sure you have a really good fan.
I agree with you on this. If the customer asks to have his 350 overclocked to 400, well fine. But shops that just do it and market it as a 400, should be put out of business. There are several in the Detroit area who do this. Makes me sick...
Lets not forget the practice of putting used parts in machines. Which they got sured for big time. Unfortunately, it still occurs with that microscopic advisory on the bottom of their boxes that states it may contain some refurbished parts. At least NEC is dropping the line.
Well, I have been in the industry for about 15 years, with PCs that is... And in just about every class of chip, from the 286 on up, AMD has always seemed to produce a faster product in the end. Also, AMD doesn't allow a chip to go out with major bugs just to rush it into use the way Intel seems to. With the introduction fo the Athlon, AMD has finally taken a significant lead in performance, reliability, and overall compatability. Maybe if Intel spent more time working on their product and less time on the Bunny people and their marketing, then I would use them more. As it is, I manage the network for a fairly large ISP and ALL of our PC based servers run on AMD, have never even had a crash on a system. Last job I had was mostly Intel and I tell you, crashes and problems were a daily occurance. AMD 4ever