840quadra said:No need to be so harsh.
Unless anyone here is an insider for the semiconductor devision of IBM we cannot be sure. It isn't that uncommon of a practice for chip makers to "clock" chips faster (among other minor changes) to get faster speeds from them.
It is the act of things like adding more cache or a minor instruction change that will let them "get away" with calling them new chips.
But then again I am on the outside of this. A guy that may know would be Aidenshaw, but he never checks these threads .
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the very definition of overclocking is someone other than the manufacturer setting the clock speed higher, these chips are run at their rated by IBM speed, i just hate the way people make assumptions like if it's watercooled it's overclocked, or if motorola does no list it it must be overclocked and then spread it around like they know better and thier word is fact.