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- From: d-nomad@ns1.flinet.com (The Digital Nomad)
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- Subject: Re: Overclocking a 68882 ?
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 05:44:26 GMT
- Organization: Florida Internet
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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?
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- Umm, well unlike Intel, Motorola tests CPU's/FPU's out at say 100MHz..if
- it passes it will be _labeled_ as a 50MHz chip...and so on down to, I
- guess, 50MHz..... This allows for a better product that will withstand
- the stated conditions a lot better than say a 100MHz Pentium that you can
- cook an egg on(a friend of mine touched a 90MHz for 1/2 sec and burned
- his hand bad enuff to have a blister)... But maybe that's why Cray was
- using Motorola(dunno if they are anymore...since SGI bought them out) Oh
- well...just my 666 cents worth...L8a
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