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- From: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
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- Subject: Re: Changing the bus speed?
- Message-ID: <3939@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 00:54:43 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cruzio.3939
- References: <24JUL199209035496@zeus.tamu.edu>
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- In article <24JUL199209035496@zeus.tamu.edu>, rcg1597@zeus.tamu.edu (GUYNN, RICHARD CARL) writes:
- >
- > I have seen quite a few people talking about the fact that they have
- > upped the bus speed on their boards. I was just wondering, is this simply done
- > by replacing the oscillator crystal? Or is there something else that must be
- > done with the crystal changeout? Ids there an easy way to determine whether the
- > board will support the new speed?
-
-
- Yes, you can occasionally tweak the bus speed. When the AT came
- out I replaced the 286 with an 8 MHz version and ran it at 10 MHz.
- All was "well" (not counting occasional problems; in which case
- I had to "fall back" to 8 MHz. Unfortunately I don't have any
- experience doing this on newer PC's; the performance gain vs.
- chip physical limits that are attained per unit of personal physical
- labor make it too expensive. It's cheaper to go out and buy a new
- faster motherboard.
-
- Aki.
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