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Re: It's not just cooling...

Vey informative, thank you!

we have been well aware of how temperature effects latencies, but we have had no way to get measurements of these timings. for us its a big hole in our testing that needs to be filled. we became aware of the effect of temperature on the internal timings when the CPU/RAM/North Bridge operated at drasticly different temperatures. mainly the signals were not being arrived as anticipated (we believe) and the system failed to operate, Overclocking with LN2 requires and acquired skill of temperature regulation. and when we are going for 8Ghz we have found a balance of temperature and voltage are key to Frequency. the latencies do hold us back quite a bit.

but we do require such low temperatures to allow the Transistors to operate with ~2 Volts otherwise we could not stabilize such a high frequency.

do you know of any way to modify these timings or a way to find specifications for the CPU tolerances? i have asked several Intel engineers who have no idea and believe that such information is keept secret.
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