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- From: skok@itwds1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Holger Skok)
- Subject: Re: Lifetime of 25MHz IIsi (was: 25MHz IIsi and my engineering friend)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.181708.22881@news.uni-stuttgart.de>
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- Organization: Inst. f. Thermodynamik u. Waermetechnik (ITW), U. of Stuttgart, FRG
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:17:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.163015.1763@udel.edu> bower@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Tyson Bower) writes:
- >A question which, to the best of my knowledge, no one has addressed yet.
- >
- >Assuming that running your IIsi CPU harder than it was originally
- >designed to go, and this extra power is being consumed, won't this
- >decrease the expected lifespan of your machine?
- >
- >"The candle which burns twice as bright burns half as long."
-
- What holds true for a candle doesn't for a CPU (or any other chip for
- that matter -- if you exclude wood chips, of course).
- The only reason for a possibly shortened lifespan of ICs I can think of
- in this context is the increased temperature of the CPU due to the
- higher power consumption at higher frequency. If you avoid that problem
- by adding a heat sink (or - if you're paranoid - an extra fan, taking
- care that it doesn't work against the one already installed) you wont
- have any problems with the CPU burning itself out.
- It's diffusion that kills the CPU. All those nifty PN or other junctions
- tend to even out over time. The concentration of the donor and acceptor
- alloying (dotation ?) materials is different on the different sides of
- the junctions which amounts to a driving potential for diffusion. The
- coefficient of molecular diffusion is temperature dependent - it is
- higher at higher temperatures. Conclusion: the higher the temperature
- the faster all concentration differences in the IC even out, thereby
- destroying it.
-
- HSK
- --
- Sie singen das alte Entsagungslied, das Eiapopeia vom Himmel,
- womit man beruhigt, wenn es greint, das Volk, den grossen Luemmel.
- Ein neues Lied, ein besseres Lied, oh Freunde, will ich Euch dichten,
- Wir wollen hier auf Erden schon das Himmelreich errichten. ... H. Heine
-