Re: Cyrirx6x86-166P+: The Fastest PC for DOS/Windows World

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From: Simon Hiscox
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 04:32

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Anthony de Vries <A.H.B.deVries@student.UTwente.nl> wrote:
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>It can be very dangerous to overclock the CPU.
>My brother thought he had bought an Intel DX2-66 over year ago.
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>It turned out that the chip was an OVERCLOCKED AMD Dx2-50....
>Clearly as the problems had gotten so much worse the chip has been
>damaged internally.  It did run ok on 50Mhz again, but rather than take
>the risk that it was allready too much damaged, so that the problems
>would come back, we decided to just put a new DX2-66 in it. (A real one
>this time.)  
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>ALL problems we ever had with programs crashing or anything else are
>gone! All works ok again.

-- 
This sounds like 'chip scraping' to me!  I have heard rumours that it happened
but, until now, no firm confirmation.  Thanks for the warning.

Can anyone point me to an up-to-date program to reliably tell me what type of
CPU I have and at what clock speed it is running?  I have an old one which
can't distinguish between the various manufacturers or between '486 and P5.

  Regards,

  Simon Hiscox (HP Associate Consultant)
  ____________________________________________________________________________
			    Telstra Phoenix Project
	  33/300 Latrobe Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3001
		Internet: c830987@powers.phoenix.telecom.com.au

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