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

Allan M. Wind (wind@sap-help.com)
Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:53:30 -0500


On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 04:34:22PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> 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)

So, one has to get a PIII/1600 in order to get sustained PII/400
performance? Maybe there is a need for those 1+ GHz processors
afterall ;-)

/Allan

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