Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 10:35:20 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge Message-ID: <19970308103520.57937@klemm.gtn.com> References: <199703012038.PAA01209@crh.cl.msu.edu> <18642.857267867@time.cdrom.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 ? ;-) My understanding of overclocking && toasting a chip is, that it might become true ;-) Any background info on that ... ? A 200PPro CPU is damn expensive ... -- andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<
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