Re: Cyrix cooling (Re: RH5.2 won't install on Cyrix)

Philipp Rumpf (prumpf@jcsbs.lanobis.de)
Fri, 5 Mar 1999 16:53:14 +0000


> If you look on Usenet you'll find people reporting "mpeg encoding mysteriously
> slows down on my new PIII after 15 minutes" - that appears to be PIII cooling
> problems they are having (the PIII seems to drop to 1/4 speed instead of
> just executing a shutdown cycle or dying randomly as the Cyrix does)

That is a PIIX4 feature ... "properly connected" PIIs should slow down too when
they get overheated.

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