Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 15:20:01 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge Message-ID: <199703082320.PAA11518@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Mar 1997 10:35:20 %2B0100." <19970308103520.57937@klemm.gtn.com>
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>On Sat, Mar 01, 1997 at 05:57:47PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> > Im assuming you twiddled the jumpers to get the higher rate, what gives you >> > confidence that your not going to smoke your CPU? :) >> >> Intel, actually. :) According to what I've heard, even when you get >> the chip hot enough to cause it to shut down, all you have to do is >> wait for it to cool down and it's back in business with no ill >> effects. I think John tried some pretty hallucinatory clock speeds >> in his own case before finally settling on 233 as the only reliable >> overclock setting. :-) > >Does that mean, that the Pentium Pro has a build in heat sensor ? ;-) Yes, actually. I don't recall in which section of the PPro hardware manual this is documented, but it does indeed have a temperature sensor that shuts the chip down before it exceeds the level that would cause permanent damage. I was quite surprised when I read about this... -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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