From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 8 18:48:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA20123 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 18:48:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA20118 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 18:48:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.4) id VAA01440; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 21:48:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 21:48:25 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199703090248.VAA01440@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: dg@root.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.chat References: <5fsskm$hoo$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich