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A Z (arek_z@yahoo.com)
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:39:13 -0700 (PDT)

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--- Ya`akov N Miles <ynmiles@ibm.net> wrote:
> Roberto Pavan wrote:
> <snip>
> > Now, most m/bs provide some 'unsupported' system
> bus speeds. For example, my
> > ASUS TVP4 can provide a bus speed of 75MHz. With
> this setting, and a clock
> > multiplier of 1.5x, I run my P233 at ~266MHz.
> This is called 'overclocking',
> > and would be the simplest and cheapest way to give
> yourself a performance
> > boost, assuming your m/b can do it.

Again if you increase the multipler (say from 2.0 to 2.5) you are
increasing the processor, but slowing down the bus. So yeah, your
processor is faster, but the over all communication is slower (going
through the bus...which is the real bottleneck).

Good information about overclocking is www.tomshardware.com

        -arek
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