AmigaMance wrote:
I came across to this thead here: http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1299
In which a user claims that he got a big speed increase from his ppc CPU, by replacing the heatsink with a bigger one.. :-)
Is this claim, valid? I know that heat affects the stability of a CPU and has an extremely small impact in its speed, but this is the fist time that i read something like this.
Temperature wont affect speed of a clocked system in a general sense. The ic's have an optimal temperature range. Being in the optimal range will give you the best proformance. Getting to hot will cause undefined behavior. A fault tolerant system can overcome problems, but you will suffer proformance.
A stock amiga 1000 will not run software faster when dipped in liquid nitrogen than when running at room temperature for example.
I'm not sure what dipping an a1000 in liquid nitrogen would do... Would it raise the propigation time accross the gates? How would it affect the resonators? Somebody needs to try this.
