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Subject: Re: Tinkering with bus speed

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 03:43:37 01/21/99

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On January 21, 1999 at 06:25:27, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>Changing CPU clock frequency in BIOS from 100 to 112 Mhz increases the speed of
>my PII-400 by exactly 12%, as if I had a 450. Is this too good to be true? Any
>undesirable side effects?
>
>Enrique

IMHO, the risk is that it might shorten the lifetime of CPU or peripheral
devices because these are designed for a clock speed of 100 MHz.

Uli



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