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From: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Icecap for NeXT?
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.034829.1147@shaman.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 03:48:29 GMT
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In article <1386@exua.exeter.ac.uk> SAMcinty@exua.exeter.ac.uk (Scott McIntyre)  
writes:
> 
> According to the June Issue of BYTE, a German company by the name of
> I think Rehm has created a widget called the Icecap...essentially, it
> forces the processor to run faster by cooling it down.  It has amazing
> speed increases, such as a 50Mhz 486 up to 96Mhz and 225Mhz landmark,
> whatever that means.  They also mentioned that versions for 68030 and
> SPARCs are in the works...
>  
> Would one of these devices work on a station?  Would it be silly to
> consider?  Anyone have any idea what it is actually doing?

  I think that this involves a whole system upgrade. You put the
Icecap (or other cooling device) on your CPU, then crank up the
system clock so that it runs faster. But you also have to work
out whats going to happen to your nice bus and also to your
nice other devices that depend on having certain clock speeds
(such as RAM).
   IMHO, this is a kludge. It's like boring out your car's engine,
sure it will make it run faster, but it wasn't designed to do it,
so you might lose longetivity/reliability in the long run.
  
   - jiro nakamura
     jiro@shaman.com
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