Quote:(Wilson Tam) writes:
>I just purchased a pentium 90mhz with a ASUS PCI/i-p54sp4 p.c.b. 1.4
>motherboard. I just overclocked the board to 100mhz by changing 3
>jumpers. Presumably, this should cause problems as the chip is
>designated a 90 mhz chip.
>The question is how much flakeyness will this cause and how can I
>tell if problems are being caused by the overclocking ?
It could range from (maybe) nothing through completely not working.
Quote:>Can I damage the chip or other components by overclocking ?
Yes, watch the heat! Make sure you get *good* ventilation on it! Even
with good ventilation, this can apparently reduce the life of the processor,
although you know, the way things are going you'll probably want to upgrade by
then anyway, probably to something with the new architecture of 4 or 5 years
down the road.
Quote:>There are many people with 60mhz and 90mhz pentiums - please
>reply with your experience even if you don't know answers to
>above questions - a survey of the results of overclocking would be
>most informative.
I think Intel makes all the Pentiums 90/100's in an equal manner, and
just tests whichever ones will clock to 100 mhz and pass the reliability tests
are 100 mhz Pentiums; the ones that fail that are 90's; the ones that fail
that are 75's. They might even sell some really crude ones as 66's or 60's.
Mostly of the 60's and 66's are a somewhat different path width though (isn't
it 3 microns versus 5?) and run at 5 volts instead of 3.3 though.
If it's rated 90 mhz, it probably runs 90 mhz, and maybe will do 92, 95,
even 99, but probably not 100; if it was a 100, it would have been sold as a
100.
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