Re: Hardware for new Linux box

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From: Richard Corfield
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 00:00

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In article <382E894F.241DE57@ftp.porn.org>,
NoSpam  <NoSpam@ftp.porn.org> wrote:
>
>The clock multiplier always used to be set by the motherboard 
>[by applying, or not, a voltage to a number of processor pins] 
>but naughty people used to play with the settings to overclock 
>lower speed processors and Intel now set the multiplier in the 
>carrier directly. 
>
>The motherboard clock multiplier settings are now irrelevant 
>to Intel CPUs.

What would happen if you put a faster clock crystal in? I suppose your
modem or anything else that relies on signals generated by the motherboard
clock (video card or does that have its own?) would get a bit upset when
what it thinks is one frequency is in fact something completely different.

 - Richard.

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Date: 1999/11/15
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