[Gllug] Underclocking an Athlon

[John Edwards]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:42:25AM +0100, Jackson, Harry wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> For all you overclockers out there this may be of some use.
> 
> Download GIMPS and run the test if it fails reduce the clocking until it
> does not. I done this on Saturday and reduced my 1GHz Athlon From 1.1GHz TO
> 1050MHz before I could get it to work properly. I know clocking it to 1.1GHz
> was a bit daft but I had to see how far I could take it.
> 
> Regards;
> Harry Jackson.

As the big Athlons have a habit of being as hot as a burning coals 
when running in a small machine, is there any way to UNDERclock them 
(eg running a 1.4GHz at 1.2GHz) ?

I would rather have a 10% slower machine than a dead machine.

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