[SunRescue] Sparc Overclocking....

Maarten Deen mdeen at xs4all.nl
Wed Mar 15 13:15:50 CST 2000


Mike Hebel wrote:

> Looking for information on the crystals on my Sparc IPC.
> 
> There are two crystals on it, one runs at approx 92mhz and the other at
> appprox. 105mhz.  Which one of these is the CPU clock crystal?  I know that
> either one has got to be close because the system runs at 25mhz and
> quartering either crystal frequency comes close.
> 
> I'd like to try overclocking this system but don't know which crystal to
> change. (I'm curious enough to possibly toast my $40 IPC.  At $40 for an IPC
> or $100 approx. for a used SS5 I feel it's worth the risk to change the
> crystal.)
> 
> Anybody have any info on this?

Hardly. I can only comment that one probably is for the CPU and the other for
the SBus (which also runs @ 25MHz)

Keep us posted though, I'm interested in any results.

Maarten






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