> I bought a PICStart board and it came with two PICs. A 16C55 and a 16C71.
> Both with windows (/JW versions). The question is:
> I thought that the info on the IC will state the clockspeed that are made for.
> but it doesn't. So, Can i run the PICs at the maximum colckspeed?
> (16Mhz the 16c71 and 20Mhz the 16c55).
> Anybody knows the power cnsumption of the PICs at those clockspeeds?

Due to the added expense of a cerdip package, the marginal cost increase
for using a fast (e.g. 16MHz) versus slow die is not significant; thus,
AFAIK, all of the cerdip package PICs are in the fastest speeds available
and I would expect that they use the same power/current as the PDIP versions
at the same speed.