[ale] AMD 5X86 chips...

andy dread at atlcom.net
Thu May 2 01:39:13 EDT 1996


Vernard Martin wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, but how would it compare to, say, my AMD486DX-80 cranked up to 100MHZ?
> 
> I"m not quite sure. I do know that over-clocking your cpu by 25% isn't a
> healthy idea in most cases. There are lots of cases of over-clocking the
> AMds to 160Mhz, I'm pretty sure that will smoke a dx2-100.
> 
> V
> --
> Vernard Martin
> (vernard.martin at cc.gatech.edu) http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/vernard/
> College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332

Over-clocking Amd and Intel cpu's will damage the intenal level one cache.
OVer-clocking Cyrix cpu's will kill the intenal on-chip powersupply.
Over-voltage on ony of the above will fuse the transistors together and make the cpu
totaly useless.

			../Andy






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