Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: 80386.
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.210731.10685@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Dec18.234020.2491@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 90 21:07:31 GMT

In article <1990Dec18.234020.2491@uoft02.utoledo.edu> stx0641@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
>	My friend told me that we can use 16Mhz 80386 DX CPU on 25Mhz 80386 DX
>motherboard.
>	Is it reliable?  Will it destroyed chips on the motherboard?

It is unlikely to do any damage.  But it will not be reliable.  Chips will
often run faster than their rated speed, when the temperature and the power
voltage and the surrounding circuitry and the phase of the moon are all
just right.  But there is no way to tell whether the chip is just barely
working, so that the slightest change in conditions will start producing
intermittent random failures.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry