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I just got myself a dx2-66 overdrive cpu and plugged it into my
motherboard.  After a few initial problems (operator error) it works
very nicely at 66Mhz.

I was really surprised at how cool the thing is running, though.
Everything I had read and been told indicated that the chip would be too
hot to touch.  I can touch the chip and it's barely warm...doesn't even
come close to burning my skin.

(my father, who bought a dx2-66 overdrive at the same time runs DOS &
Windows and tells me that his CPU is burning hot - he can't even touch
it for a few seconds whereas I could leave my finger firmly pressed onto
mine for minutes without feeling more than warm)


I guess Linux must be really kind to processors because it uses the HLT
instruction to idle, rather than sitting in an idle loop.

Anyway, this brings me to my question.  The overdrive chip has got a
heatsink stuck on top of it, which prevents me from sticking the CPU
fan I bought onto it.  This concerns me a bit because I was thinking of
running it as a DX2-80.

Has anyone had any experience running an overclocked DX2-66 with Linux?
Given that the chip runs so much cooler than under Dos or Windows, is it
relatively safe to just run it at 40MHz without the CPU fan?


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