Author: Kai Lübke
Date: 04:21:39 08/26/98
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On August 25, 1998 at 22:21:15, Bela Andrew Evans wrote: >Anybody who wants to get a powerful chip for their chess programs >might want to consider Intel's new Celeron-A chip. Their are two >versions, 300 and 333 mhz, and reportedly it is quite easy to >overclock the 300 mhz version to 450 mhz. The clock multiplier on >the 300 mhz chip is locked to 4.5, but if you put the chip into a >100 mhz bus motherboard, you get 4.5 X 100 = 450 mhz. Benchmarks >show the speed of an overclocked Celeron-A 300 mhz comparable to >a Pentium II 450 mhz, Have you run this experiment yourself??? It sounds like a very bad idea to overclock a CPU by such an extreme factor (50%). Kryotech can do this because of their highly sophisticated cooling system, but any ordinary system should be hard to overclock by more than 1-2 "steps" (i.e. 200->233->266, 300->333->350 etc.). Before you kill your CPU, make sure to take a look at http://tomshardware.com about overclocking basics... :) --- Shep
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