Overclock a Blizzard 1260

[Brian]

The B1260's design, with the simm going over the CPU, doesn't allow for great cooling of the CPU but it is possible (I cut some of the gills of a coolingplate to be able to fit it under my singlesided simm (still clicks in place)).

The XC runns quite hot as it is, in fact the CS060 MK1 came with active cooling for this reason, so you want to use a coolingplate no matter if you clock it or not. Any kind of overclocking should only be done with active cooling and still I wouldn't go higher than 60Mhz at the most (ok so perhaps you can use 55Mhz without a fan and perhaps you can push it to 66 or even 70Mhz with a fan but it's lifespan is shortened. I would personaly rather have a 10% slower computer for the next 5-10 more years than have it run faaast and see it die in a year or two).

[Brian]

@HopperJF

There is a LC060/75Mhz without FPU though some can clock full 060 to that and still have the FPU working it's not always the case and it's not exactly safe, especialy not for the older XC model (not the newer MC model found on most boards these days).

[Brian]

It's 2 different options and can't realy be compared... also the shark is not available where's the BPPC can be found secondhand if you keep your eyes open.

Until we see what the shark is capable off or if it's going to be released we can't but speculate. Also OS4 will support BPPC but it's still unsurtan for the shark.