From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 8 07:06:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA16853 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 07:06:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA16843 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 07:06:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id PAA14529; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 15:45:47 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) id KAA18158; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 10:35:20 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970308103520.57937@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 10:35:20 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge References: <199703012038.PAA01209@crh.cl.msu.edu> <18642.857267867@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.64_p3-9,11-13,16-17,20-23,25-27 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Mar 01, 1997 at 05:57:47PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Im assuming you twiddled the jumpers to get the higher rate, what gives you > > confidence that your not going to smoke your CPU? :) > > Intel, actually. :) According to what I've heard, even when you get > the chip hot enough to cause it to shut down, all you have to do is > wait for it to cool down and it's back in business with no ill > effects. I think John tried some pretty hallucinatory clock speeds > in his own case before finally settling on 233 as the only reliable > overclock setting. :-) Does that mean, that the Pentium Pro has a build in heat sensor ? ;-) My understanding of overclocking && toasting a chip is, that it might become true ;-) Any background info on that ... ? A 200PPro CPU is damn expensive ... -- andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<