Re(2): [SunRescue] Sparc Overclocking....

[Dave McGuire]

On March 15, Tim Hauber wrote:
> >Not unless there's a convenient coincidence of some multiple of the
> >monitor's sync rates and the sbus clock. :)
> 
> Isn't the onboard FB on the IPC and IPX actually sbus anyway?  It wouldn't
> make sense to me to build a custom circuit when you can just transplant
> the already designed sbus card, with it's independant timing, onto the
> motherboard.  Even Sun has some hurry to market influence, so you try to
> never design the same circuit twice.  I'd imagine if you had a picture of
> the "same" sbus FB, you could probably match components to determine which
> were part of the frame buffer circuitry.

  Oh yes, I'm sure that's the case...there'd be no motivation at all
(none that I can think of, anyway) to redesign the framebuffer...

       -Dave McGuire