Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!amdcad!diablo!phil From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: My New 386 Clone (from HQ Computers) Message-ID: <25033@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 29 Mar 89 22:06:54 GMT References: <3546@sybase.sybase.com> Sender: news@amdcad.AMD.COM Reply-To: phil@diablo.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Sunnyvale CA Lines: 32 In article <3546@sybase.sybase.com> forrest@sybase.com writes: |Last week I posted a summary of the 386 clone I was going to buy. We bought almost exactly the same system, and dealt with the same person (Echo). The price is very attractive and the system works very well. |386 clones. I don't have any of the Unix versions for the 386 so |I have no idea how (or if) Unix works on my system. I'm going |to wait for S5R4 before buying Unix for it. We run Interactive Unix and it seems to work. | I am concerned about any damage that could occur to any of | the 20 MHZ components on the motherboard when they are run at | 25 Mhz. What I'll do about this until I find out for sure is I think you've been listening to people who don't know what they're talking about. It is true that most chips run hotter when they are clocked faster. It is not true that a chip rated at 20 MHz and run at 25 MHz will have a shorter life than a chip rated at 25 and run at 25. It is true that a chip rated at 20 and run at 25 may not be reliable at 25. But if you run that chip at 25 and find it doesn't work at 25, that chip will not have been damaged and will run just as well at 20 as it ever did. This seems to be another urban legend. -- Phil Ngai, phil@diablo.amd.com {uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil "In California, the reward for saving water is a lower quota."