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- From: drand@spinner.osf.org (Douglas S. Rand)
- Subject: Re: IIsi speedup kit!
- In-Reply-To: seth@physc1.byu.edu's message of 11 Jan 93 21:56:04 -0700
- Message-ID: <DRAND.93Jan12135829@spinner.osf.org>
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <1itbj2INN2hr@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> <1993Jan11.215604.327@physc1.byu.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 13:58:29
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1993Jan11.215604.327@physc1.byu.edu> seth@physc1.byu.edu writes:
-
- > AN 11 PAGE, FULLY ILLUSTRATED INSTRUCTION BOOKLET
- > A HEAVY DUTY COOLING FAN WITH MOUNTING HARDWARE
- > A LARGE HEAT SINK WITH HEAT CONDUCTING COMPOUND
- > ALL NECESSARY COMPONENTS AND SOCKETS
- > AND FULL CUSTOMER SUPPORT SERVICES
- > Some soldering required
- ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
-
- This should read "Some soldering required, and you can really screw up your
- motherboard trying this, so only do this if you are very confident of your
- ability to muck about with a multi-layered board and all and pry the stupid
- crystal off without putting yourself out $900 for a new motherboard..."
-
- Add to this that things like disk access time and data transfer have
- more to do with the disk and the SCSI controller than the CPU in
- many cases and the argument is even weaker.
-
- I can get most of the same performance improvement at 0% risk by
- purchasing a quicksilver cache, no soldering required. If I ever
- decide the the IIsi is seriously too slow, then I can buy an
- 68040 accelerator.
-
- I can see the temptation to get the performance for nearly free,
- but I agree with you that non-soldering non-electronics folks
- should leave it alone.
-
-
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