Re: Popular Science

[joe@smoe.com (Joe Seeley)]

In article <slrn6sq6ki.3ms.modus-dejanews@ns.asimov.net>, modus-dejanews@pr.es.to (Patrick Michael Kane) wrote:
>The company in question is probably kryotech.  They have gotten x86 and alpha
>class processors to run at pretty amazing speeds and have avoided the 
>condensation issues, somehow.

FWIW, If I take the case off my own box I can get my K6-233 running at 250mhz 
with an 83mhz bus speed.  I have heard of using a Peltier (sp?) fan to cool 
down AMD K6s enough to get a 233 running at 300 and some people at Tom's 
Hardware (tomshardware.com) got a 233 K6 running at 400mhz!  If you can do 
these sorta things in the comfort of your own home (with even perhaps a 
Milwaukee's Best in one hand), then why not -40c in a clean air lab?

>I don't think it would be much help for a GS though.

There is some guy in this group who keeps claiming that he can make a 
StrongARM GS motherboard that would really bring the GS up to date and make it 
roar.  He said it would cost about $500 per motherboard and he needed 
something like a 1000 confirmed buyers.  I told him I'd buy one but he never 
replied...

In any case the bottom line is that it isn't just the CPU that is the problem 
with the IIGS.  From what I gather it is pretty much everything about the 
motherboard that needs to be updated.  Including but not limited to: video, 
system RAM and SCSI.  By today's standards these all run at a turtle's pace.  
I was asking sometime back in January about a GS version of MAME and that is 
when I found out the details.

Sincerely,

Joe Seeley
Ojai, CA  USA
sloppymagoo@hotmail.com