First post, by TheAbandonwareGuy
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If anyones wondering how and where i ran across this I've been assimilating knowledge of 486 PC's at a pretty inconcievable rate lately because I'm trying to get enough knowledge to repair a 486/SX 25 motherboard in my AST Advantage Pro. This particular segment of text comes from Aubrey Pilgrims "Build your own 486 PC and save a bundle, 2nd Edition" courtesy of Openlibrary.org.
Is this true? I've never heard this theory before, certainly not from someone who i presume knows his way around a circuit board. I can think of very few circuit boards that have lasted aslong as i (hopefully) will last. Has something changed in circuit board design since then that just obsoleted this theory? Capacitors and boards wear out regardless of how little or much voltage you push through them based on my understanding, where as based on my interpretation of Aubrey's statement logically my graphics card should never die within my lifetime so long as it survives 168 hours (Yeah... way past that now 🤣) and i never overvolt it. I would think capacitors or something would fail? Or does this statement apply only to the PCB and not the chips, capacitors, and resistors attached there of?
I don't know, I just figured I'd share this here as it seems somewhat interesting. Am i just interpreting this wrong or is the guy who wrote this misinformed/full of shit?
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