Re: Will overclocking my DX4/100 burn my PC ?

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From: Niels Endres
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 00:00

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Yvette Lian (yal@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au) wrote:
: Just as a point of semantics here, the DX4-100 is actually a clock-TRIPLED 
: 33MHz CPU.  Not 25MHz.  I'm told the reason Intel used DX-4 as opposed
: to DX-3 
: is that some other company was using the DX3 notation.  To be strictly 
: correct, all DX4-100 machines are actually DX3-99, but they're referred to as 
: 4-100s because dx3 was already in use.

Although this is correct and I understand this, does this also mean that
all previously released DX4/100's are all UNDERCLOCKED, being set to
25Mhz?  ie.  people are undercloking their DX3/99's to a DX3/75?  

btw- what ever happened to the dx-50, and why not make a dx2-100?

Niels.

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From: niels@aardvark.apana.org.au (Niels Endres)
Subject: Re: Will overclocking my DX4/100 burn my PC ?
Date: 1995/08/18
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