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- From: u7917055@cc.nctu.edu.tw (ultima)
- Subject: Re: How to INCREASE PROCESSOR SPEED (recommended?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.154037.27699@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:40:37 GMT
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- LAM (y70q@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca) wrote:
- : 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.
- :
- :
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- Sure we can do such thing, but for sure expection, this "poor" cpu
- will burn down for too fast freq in some time.
-