So wouldn't the facts stated below lead one to NOT overclock the Newton
processor if one wishes to keep the unit operating for a long time.
Unless of course, one had an unlimited supply of Newtons and or Newton
processors. It seem to me that this is the problem with hardware
modifications to the Newton. You are trading, in many cases, an overall
insignificant improvement in overall performance for the possibility
that you might drastically shorten the life of the unit from a hardware
perspective. Software modifications/improvements do not present the same
dangers, if you will.
Will
On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 05:23 PM, Frank Gruendel wrote:
>
>> Of course overclocking means more stress for the processor.
>
> This is of course correct, but it usually is only an issue if you
> overclock components that weren't built for that frequency.
> As Mr. PCBMan correctly pointed out, processors usually
> are tested and labeled with the highest frequency at which
> they operate reliably. In other words, a 100 MHz component might
> have been cut from the very same die as a 200 MHz component,
> it just didn't perform reliably at this frequency. But
> heat-dissipation-wise it was built to work at that frequency.
> If this wasn't so, there would have to be different values for the
> mtbf (mean time between failure) for different operating frequencies
> of a processor, and as yet I haven't seen this in any datasheet.
>
>> And a main factor is - to what extent you do the overclocking.
>> You might be lucky and the processor will do the job a life long.
>> But there is a certain risk that you are unlucky.
>
> This is correct. But this is normally because the processor won't work
> at that frequency, not because it dissipates more heat due to the
> increased
> clock frequency.
>
> Frank
>
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>
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