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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: How to INCREASE PROCESSOR SPEED (recommended?)
- Message-ID: <wiegand.722013797@lido16>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <7347@kielo.uta.fi> <1992Nov16.170339.9832@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:23:17 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- y70q@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (LAM) writes:
-
- >In article <7347@kielo.uta.fi> f1sami@uta.fi (Samu Mielonen) writes:
- >>A subject of increasing processor speed by changing the crystal on
- >>motherboard has popped up in this newsgroup a couple of times. This
- >>sounds very interesting, but I wonder if anyone has used this method
- >>to increase system performance without any loss in reliability. Anyone
- >>care to share their experiences?
-
- >I heard from my friend that there are guys in Hong Kong change the
- >crystal of a 486DX2/66 to a 40MHz crystal. The machine instantly
- >changed to a 80MHz machine. I know nothing further about this.
-
- This will definatly reduce the reliability of the machine both in the short
- term and in the long term.
-
- In the short term you will increase the possibility the soft errors
- (one time glitches) bu running the parts faster than their rated speeds.
-
- In the long term you reduce the lifetime of the parts due to increased
- heat form the higher operating speed.
-
-
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
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- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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