Hi Bill
I would assume that underclocking may be safe.......I have never really
tried it..........a few years back when motherboards were littered with
jumper settings, you could just about bet 50/50 if a system was locking up
etc, and had a good heat sink, that a jumper was wrong..........today
that's probably less common........
I should clarify more in the posts, but don't want to be over technical ;-)
, the speed on a lot of boards was set by a combination of board freq (bus
speed) & processor speed (internal clock speed) this is what I meant
Your post is interesting as I have never considered running them slower,
however I can see the merit in trying this method if all else is
ok.....doubting the quality of a lot of the resistors and capacitors etc
that are used (I have not checked close to see the % of units used)
PS for what its worth, in general I found years ago when doing volume
builds on PCs, that roughly 20% -30% of main boards failed pretty much off
the bat, better quality boards had about 15% I would say......of those
failures a fair % was the cache ram...
These mail lists are a real resource aren't they, years of experience
flowing around freely.....gee I wish the net was around in the day I was
OEMing 486's.....there were so many darn jumpers on those boards, and they
were so fussy........
I am committed to saying "Happy New Year" on every post now.......
So.... Happy New Year all
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On 30/12/99 at 8:22 Ward William E PHDN wrote:
>Greg, from experience, you can safely UNDERclock a Cyrix with no
>ill effects. Never been seen the need to overclock one, though...
>I've underclocked them because of motherboard BIOS problems a few
>times, and ran an MII-300 as an MII-266 for 6 months. Works great
>as a 300 again, too.
>
>Gonna get me a K6-2 or 3 sometime next year.
>
>Bill Ward
Regards
Greg Wright
IT Consultant Sydney Australia
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