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Originally posted by Undertoad
There's no danger whatsoever in underclocking a CPU. They would love it, because they run cooler.
You're lucky to have a BIOS that lets you set the CPU speed without changing jumpers. Not all of them do that yet.
What's the game?
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From my long-ago brag post from when I bought it, the motherboard is an ASUS A7V133 (ATA100, 4xAGP, 4USB Jumperfree, AT-Raid0, 266MHz FSB, six slots). On the few occasions I've been in the BIOS, I've seen clock multipliers running from 5x to 12.5x and everywhere in between, and it's run at 1000 MHz on occasion without incident.
The game is the old Magic the Gathering set from Microprose. I picked it up for cheap from one of the software clearance outlets just to see what all the fuss was about, and found myself enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. This version is buggy in places, but the strategy involved can be entertainingly complicated.
The key is that with this version, not only do you have computer opponents and a single-player quest mode for when nobody's around to challenge, but you have all of the possible cards in the game (at that time) RIGHT THERE to browse through and play with. You don't have to buy hundreds of card packs to even see some of the rarer cards, much less to build a deck capable of beating the one that the rich kid down the block bought on eBay, which is one reason why I never tried the real-life versions of Magic. Of course, Wizards of the Coast has only sold about 867 million Magic and Pokemon decks and packs, so what do _I_ know about their business model?
Anyway, it runs too slow on my P-133 and too fast on my Athlon 1300. Somewhere between the two, the truth lies...