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- From: Ulf Ljungdahl <de4ulflj@itu.liu.se>
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- Subject: Re: Overclocking a 68882 ?
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 19:23:13 GMT
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- m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry) wrote:
- >Andrea Morolli (morolli@cs.unibo.it) wrote:
- >: I'm considering to clock my 33Mhz 882 at 50Mhz.
- >: Do you think it will work?
- >
- >Probably not. The 6888x FPUs seem to be a lot more sensitive to overclocking
- >than the 680x0 CPUs, and are very likely to blow if you attempt such a thing.
- >Motorola performs rigorous tests on these chips to establish the maximum
- >clock rate - do you think they would rate a chip at 33MHz if they knew that
- >they could sell it for substantially more as a 50MHz part and get away with
- >it?
- >
- >You can risk it if you want, of course, but "don't say I didn't warn you".
- >
- >-- Mat.
-
- I'm currently using my 25MHz 68882 at 36MHz and it doen't even get hot, so I'm
- thinking of trying even higer frequences.
-
- --
- Ulf Ljungdahl
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