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Offline PaSha

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Re: Does heat affect the speed of a CPU?
« on: December 07, 2005, 05:31:21 PM »
IIRC NMOS chips go faster the hotter they get, increasing the heat even more, thus going faster again and so on.... until they die.

I know one kind of chips do this, I think it was NMOS, but I'm not quite sure...

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