On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:51:08PM -0500, Douglas Wade Needham wrote:
> Things get really complicated when you consider that some, if not many
> manufacturers determine the clock speed of a chip on a batch-by-batch
> basis through testing.  However, since I prefer to spend my money on
> new "toys" rather than fixing ones I already have, I tend to be
> conservative and not over-clock.

Well, I'm not over-clocking these CPU's, but they (especially the other
one) still run hot.  The temperature sensors don't look all that expensive
and they may not make a good contact with the CPU surface, so I'm not sure
if the results are really comparable.  On the "hotter" machine, I put some
thermal joint compound between the CPU and the sensor, so I may just be
getting more realistic numbers than on the other machine.

Athlons are said to run hot and it seems to be more than just a rumour..

  -jm