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Offline AmigaManceTopic starter

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Does heat affect the speed of a CPU?
« on: December 07, 2005, 01:17:24 PM »
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.
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Re: Does heat affect the speed of a CPU?
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2005, 04:01:02 PM »
 From my personal experience, i agree with Ilwrath and koaftder. I haven't notice any corelation between temperature and CPU speed. That doesn't mean that Framiga is wrong, maybe he has experienced something that we haven't.

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 Are this changes measurable from a benchmarking utility, like SysSpeed for example?

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 No, as Ilwrath said, i don't think that this is the case with PPCs.
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