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Subject: Re: If Steve's advise do not work, rise the CPU voltage

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 23:58:38 07/12/99

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On July 13, 1999 at 00:17:02, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On July 13, 1999 at 00:03:50, Steve Lopez wrote:
>
>>On July 12, 1999 at 23:11:16, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>
>>>This fellow used to hang out with the rest of us in my college's computer
>>>center..  Whenever his program crashed, he would announce to us that there was a
>>>problem with the school's main computer, and that we should save our work.
>>>
>>>He eventually dropped out of computers and became a folk singer.
>>
>>How ironic. I stopped being a blues singer and am now in computer software.
>>
>>And your point is...?
>>
>>-- Steve Lopez
>>http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Hangar/5176/index.html
>>http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/chesskamikazes
>
>My point is that I have never heard anyone suggest raising the voltage on the
>CPU because a program crashed.
>
>bruce

Obviously, not a first choice response to a program crash, but this is a
standard overclockers technique to help achieve stability, but you must also pay
attention to proper cooling. You can find articles about this all over the
internet. Only some motherboards allow the voltage to be changed.



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