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clock tripling
Last modified: Thursday, January 24, 2008 

The process used on some older 486 computers to triple the internal processing speed of the CPU while maintaining the manufacturer's original clock speed for I/O transfers. In most cases, clock-tripling would normally yield a lower than 100 percent overall system performance boost (e.g., 30 to 70 percent), not an actual tripling of the clock speed as suggested by the name.

See also clock speed.

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The Intel486 processor, 80486DX4 has clock doubling and tripling. CLKMUL on the 80486DX4 allows this to happen. When held high, it performs clock tripling. When held low it performs clock doubling. The Intel486 80486DX2 has internal clock doubling. Possible Symptoms: Looking for clock speed.

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