Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 21:48:25 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: dg@root.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge Message-ID: <199703090248.VAA01440@crh.cl.msu.edu> References: <5fsskm$hoo$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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In lists.freebsd.chat you write:
>>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 yo
u
>>> > 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 ? ;-)
> Yes, actually. I don't recall in which section of the PPro hardware
>manual this is documented, but it does indeed have a temperature sensor
>that shuts the chip down before it exceeds the level that would cause
>permanent damage. I was quite surprised when I read about this...
Damn, those Intel people are cool!
-Crh
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