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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!raffles.technet.sg!nuscc.nus.sg!isc30236 From: isc30236@leonis.nus.sg (TAN TOT LIT) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: PCI bus freq with CPU freq at (X * 40)Mhz? Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.intel Date: 7 Mar 1996 02:00:07 GMT Organization: National University of Singapore Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4hlfv7$lbu@nuscc.nus.sg> References: <DnpJqF.82n@info.elvisti.kiev.ua> <4hg8sa$1jn@heist.demon.co.uk> <Dns7BK.DBI@ritz.mordor.com> <4hhh1s$pn@heist.demon.co.uk> <4hie07$70i@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: isc30236@leonis.nus.sg X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15525 alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus:12686 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems:29224 comp.os.linux.hardware:33431 comp.sys.intel:67789 J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : The biggest risk is that you don't need to notice the problem : immediately. The most fatal source of failures on an overheated chip : are whiskers in an Al conductor layer that finally break an insulation : layer, hence causing a shortcut, or so-called ``electro migration'', : thinning out a conductor layer, which causes it to overheat the more : until it's broken. Yea, true, but by then u've probably done another 2 upgrade to ur computer. -- ~Frisky Kitty~ !*% T-3..............T-2.............T-1.............BOOM.....................