Re: [suse-sparc] Overclocking Sun Ultra 30 workstation

From: Joshua Uziel (uzi@uzix.org)
Date: Fri Feb 23 2001 - 21:05:58 PST

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    Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:05:58 -0800
    From: Joshua Uziel <uzi@uzix.org>
    Message-ID: <20010223210558.R29980@gimp.org>
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Overclocking Sun Ultra 30 workstation
    

    * KirkE@paccessglobal.com <KirkE@paccessglobal.com> [010223 17:12]:
    > The UIIi 300MHz mbus processor module and the 360MHz mbus processor modules
    > no dot appear to have any hard-coded or pin-bonded frequency, which should
    > theoretically mean they can be overclocked assuming I can either determine
    > which pins represent the UPA to CPU clock divisor and (conversely) what
    > jumpers on the motherboard correspond to the UPA frequency (and ultimately
    > the divisor between UPA and PCI bus A and B).

    Two things:

    1) Ultra 30s don't use UltraSPARC-IIi processors... they use normal
    UltraSPARC-II processors. (There was a pretty good deal of a U30/300
    with 512MB of RAM on ebay from Sun for $1600, too.)

    2) Mbus is a SuperSPARC/HyperSPARC, SS10/SS20/etc. thing

    I heard of people overclocking machines while I was working at Sun... I
    never looked too much into it, though.



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