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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (40195)	10/27/1998 11:31:00 AM
From: Badger	Read Replies (1) of 1573866

You don't need cooling this exotic to overclock your CPU, in most cases. My Celeron 300A overclocks to 450 with no additional cooling and no increase in instability. You do have to watch out with Intel chips, because some of the higher-end CPUs are multiplier-locked and can't be overclocked unilaterally. This is the case with the Celeron A - it's locked at a 4.5 multiplier, so it either runs at 300 (66.64.5) or 450 (1004.5). Non-Intel chips tend to run a lot hotter than Intel chips and are historically more unstable and difficult to overclock, so more cooling might be a good idea. I'd be very cautious pushing the 500 Mhz. barrier, though. I'm not sure a fancy cooling system is worth the effort, anyway. Put a fan on all your heat sinks, buy an extra fan for your case, and overclock as best you can from there. Or sink the money you'd spend on a cooling system and buy a better CPU. JMHO Badger

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