[Cube] 550 Mhz, fan?

[Denis McGowan]

You'll find an explanation about overclocking at:
<http://www.overclockersclub.com/overclockingfaq.php>
What is it?
> process of increasing the clock frequency of your Central Processing 
> Unit (CPU), Graphical Processing Unit (GPU), Memory, PCI, and/or AGP 
> devices. In other words, making your computer run faster without 
> having to spend the money on upgrades.

Here is an explanation of overclocking:
> How is a processor overclocked?
> The most common (and simplest) way to Overclock a processor is by 
> simply raising the Front Side Bus (FSB) from within the BIOS. The 
> process is the same with both AMD and Intel CPUs. Simply enter the 
> BIOS on system startup, find the setting for the FSB and increase that 
> value. - If you are unsure where this option is in the BIOS, take a 
> look at your motherboard manual, as it should have that information 
> for you.
   (Clear enough? Well, not to me either.  I still don't know how to go 
about it if I wanted to.)

On 03/06/2005, at 10:05 PM, Melvetta Overturf wrote:

>  I don't know what overclocked means. Can someone explain it to me so 
> I can add one more star to my rememberences book? Melvetta
>
>
>  Riba wrote:
>>  On 2005.06.01, at 00:40, Ramon Garcia Icart wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>  I joined the list one moth ago more or less. I've bought a Cube on  
>>> eBay that wasn't working. It turned out to be a defective DVD unit.  
>>> Once replaced (one hour ago), it looks like it's working.
>>>  A preliminary visit to the system profiler shows a processor speed  
>>> of 550 Mhz, and I've noticed that has an internal fan. The hard  
>>> drive is a 10 Gb Quantum, that probably is not the original one as  
>>> I think they were shipped with 20 Gb HD.
>>>  But what about the 550 Mhz? Is it overclocked? Maybe a third party  
>>> processor upgrade + fan?
>>
>>  It seems to be overclocked. Third party upgrades started with 800 
>> MHz.
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