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Any Motorolla CPUs slow down when hot?
« on: September 02, 2004, 02:07:48 AM »
I was just wondering...

If your Motorolla CPU got too hot, would it switch into a slower mode
or disable caches?

I'm thinking in particular of the '040 but I've performed a
SysSpeed2.6 test on a Blizzard 1260 and occasionaly the module will
register it as a 49Mhz 68060, sometimes a 50Mhz.

This could be the Blizzard slowing down when 2x SIMMs are installed,
but I wondered if any 68k chips had intelligient features like this.

No ATX style features that can be accessed through software, such as
temperature reading?

I suppose if there were we'd have seen something on Aminet by now
though...