Lets get some terminology right here. According to Mr Flake wholists will tell you that emergent properties cannot be predicted from the botton level description and reductionist will tell you that nothing is emergent and that everything can be explained from dumb low level building blocks. Well and good. But this implies that these two terms of opposition are the only two alternatives. It is possible to say that higher level properties are emergent and explainable in terms of their lower level properties. The middle position is that higher level properties supervene on the lower level ones. Supervenience allows for the possibility ontologically robust higher level entities while allowing for these entities to be explained in terms of more basic ones. Take temporature for example. We can explain temporature in terms of the mean kinetic energy of molecules, but that doesn't mean that temporature is not real. Hardline reductionists might mumble objections that this is only a product of our modes of perception at this point but I think they would be in the minority. Not only that the reduction of temporature is notably non specific! We explain the temporature of gass as mean kinetic energy of molecules and we explain temporature in metals as excitation of free electrons. So temporature is different things in different materials. But it is still real; and it still identifies a set of specific causal properties and propensities. There are many other properties like temporature. Reductionist have difficulty with this. The mind may be like this. It may be that mental activity is realisable in silicon and tin etc. as much as it is in blood and tissue.
Intel Celeron processors are multiplyer locked so the only way you can overclock the Celeron is to crank up the front side bus. The core itself will handle the load but you might fry the second level cache unless you get yourself a BIG cooler. It depends on the cache speed. You could be lucky. Seems like a lot of effort to go to just for 33Mhz though. If your really keen have a look at Tom's Hardware. Tom reckons that he's got one of these things running at 613 MHz.
There seems to be a misconception among a lot of people posting in response to this one that there is no difference between the PII 400 and the PII 450. The processor core of these things IS the same. The differences between them are the level 2 cache and the casing. The specification for the 400 states that it comes with 5.5ns cache and the 450 comes with 4.5ns cache. The casing on the 450 also has two aluminium contact plates that are cast into the chasis behind the cache that keep it cooler. That is the specification anyway, but, as anyone seriously into overclocking knows sometimes intel stick faster cache in slower CPUs because that's all they happen to have lying around at the time. So you'll find runs of 400s and even 300s with the 4.5ns chips in them. So with either a bit of luck or lot of research into manufacture dates and serial numbers you can end up with what amounts to a radically underated CPU.
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Lets get some terminology right here.
According to Mr Flake wholists will tell you that emergent properties cannot be predicted from the botton level description and reductionist will tell you that nothing is emergent and that everything can be explained from dumb low level building blocks. Well and good. But this implies that these two terms of opposition are the only two alternatives. It is possible to say that higher level properties are emergent and explainable in terms of their lower level properties. The middle position is that higher level properties supervene on the lower level ones. Supervenience allows for the possibility ontologically robust higher level entities while allowing for these entities to be explained in terms of more basic ones.
Take temporature for example. We can explain temporature in terms of the mean kinetic energy of molecules, but that doesn't mean that temporature is not real. Hardline reductionists might mumble objections that this is only a product of our modes of perception at this point but I think they would be in the minority. Not only that the reduction of temporature is notably non specific! We explain the temporature of gass as mean kinetic energy of molecules and we explain temporature in metals as excitation of free electrons. So temporature is different things in different materials. But it is still real; and it still identifies a set of specific causal properties and propensities. There are many other properties like temporature. Reductionist have difficulty with this.
The mind may be like this. It may be that mental activity is realisable in silicon and tin etc. as much as it is in blood and tissue.
Intel Celeron processors are multiplyer locked so the only way you can overclock the Celeron is to crank up the front side bus. The core itself will handle the load but you might fry the second level
cache unless you get yourself a BIG cooler. It depends on the cache speed. You could be lucky. Seems like a lot of effort to go to just for 33Mhz though. If your really keen have a look at Tom's Hardware. Tom reckons that he's got one of these things running at 613 MHz.
There seems to be a misconception among a lot of people posting in response to this one that there
is no difference between the PII 400 and the PII 450. The processor core of these things IS the same. The differences between them are the level 2 cache and the casing. The specification for the 400 states that it comes with 5.5ns cache and the 450 comes with 4.5ns cache. The casing on the 450 also has two aluminium contact plates that are cast into the chasis behind the cache that keep it cooler.
That is the specification anyway, but, as anyone seriously into overclocking knows sometimes intel stick faster cache in slower CPUs because that's all they happen to have lying around at the time. So you'll find runs of 400s and even 300s with the 4.5ns chips in them. So with either a bit of luck or lot of research into manufacture dates and serial numbers you can end up with what amounts to a radically underated CPU.