Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 16:34:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: underclocking Message-ID: <199907012334.QAA05133@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>
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OK, so we know (or should know) all about overclocking and its attendant risks and benefits. I want to know about *underclocking*. Specifically, I have a brand new Asus P5A-B motherboard with a 400 MHz AMD K6-2 processor and a 32 MB SDRAM PC100 DIMM. I don't need anywhere near that much CPU power in the current application, and I'm wondering if the board and CPU will run cooler, live longer, or both, if I set the jumpers to run the CPU at, say, 333 MHz with a 95 MHz bus, or even 266 MHz with a 66 MHz bus? Or am I just being silly? (I realize this isn't a FreeBSD-specific question, but the board *will* be running FreeBSD. I promise not to ask this list for advice on toasting croissants, even if I do succeed in porting FreeBSD to my toaster oven.) Jim Shankland NLynx Systems, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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