What is "stepping" ???

[akaBruno]

I've seen posts where people speak of "stepping." What are they talking about?

[Ultima]

I think they refer to the fact that for example:

You have an athlon board with the amd northbridge chipset!!!

Gforces will only work on those chipsets, if it is later then stepping 4.

I haven't heard of any other stepping, so this might be it.

And I'm a lucky ******* to have that chipset, stepping 6, so I can go get myself a g-force.

Hope this helps a little.

Pim

[newkilla]

its a new line dance for tweakheads


LOL KILLA

[akaBruno]

Is that a x2 step or a little faster?

[Szech]

I believe that in terms of processors, stepping refers to how many revisions the chip has gone through. So when a chip is first released, it has stepping zero. If they make some correction to the chip (remember the old Pentium math bug?), then the next chips that are churned out have stepping one. And so on. It's generally better to have a higher stepping.

[BrentReed]

Stepping is a newer version of a cpu.

See the link below for more info.

The new Pentium 3 cB0 stepping CPUs are now starting to appear on the market. What is a stepping, you ask? We talked about steppings in our Overclocking Basics Guide. A new processor stepping is basically a slightly refined core design implemented to correct minor defects or to improve yields. As you also may remember from our Overclocking Basics Guide, we have been anticipating the release of the new P3 stepping for quite some time.
http://www.firingsquad.com/guides/overclockingbasicsver4/page7.asp