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- From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
- Subject: Re: How to INCREASE PROCESSOR SPEED (recommended?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.092245.13654@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 09:22:45 GMT
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- Robert Wiegand (wiegand@rtsg.mot.com) wrote:
- : y70q@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (LAM) writes:
- : >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.
-
- i think elonex (now one of the UKs largest direct sales pc companies -
- not some back street honk kong outfit) have started to sell a 486DX2/75
- machine by using 486DX2/66 can upping the clock speed to 75MHz. though
- as the machine is designed to do this all the motherboard logic etc
- will obviously be spec-ed to run at that speed and they obviously
- have faith that they can spot the 486's that will run at 75MHz!
-
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