Higher clock speed means less time for each transistor to accumulate enough electrons to switch. Clock it up too high, and not enough electrons flow into the transistors to make them switch... and, no boot!
Does freezig help this problem? Does super-cooling somehow increase conductivity in ordinary silicon?
To get a processor to run at, say 682 MHz -- that's 5.5 times 124, the max speed on most high-end Super7 boards -- by how much would you need to raise the voltage for an AMD K6-2? How far could you go before you fried the chip entirely? How much cooling might this require?
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Higher clock speed means less time for each transistor to accumulate enough electrons to switch. Clock it up too high, and not enough electrons flow into the transistors to make them switch... and, no boot!
Does freezig help this problem? Does super-cooling somehow increase conductivity in ordinary silicon?
To get a processor to run at, say 682 MHz -- that's 5.5 times 124, the max speed on most high-end Super7 boards -- by how much would you need to raise the voltage for an AMD K6-2? How far could you go before you fried the chip entirely? How much cooling might this require?