Old Wei, quick on his feet, handed him a trash can: "You're a real lunatic."
"Ugh..." Mercer was too busy to speak, the cooling at his back still running, while he vomited like there was no tomorrow, even having a nosebleed.
The color of his nosebleed wasn't the deep red it used to be, but had become lighter, with a hint of blue in it.
After a while, Mercer wiped his nosebleed, took a deep breath and said: "I think I get it, having Brain-Machine Overclocking and the Synaptic Accelerator on at the same time is quite a burden for me.
As a consciousness when deep diving, I can use the computing power of the hacker chair to alleviate the processing pressure, but now it's all pushing on my brain, even if the cooling can handle it, my brain will start malfunctioning because of the overclocking.
Human bodies are really fragile... I feel my heart twitching, and my lungs are burning, so it seems that an artificial heart and synthetic lungs will be necessary."
Mercer assessed and finally made a judgment, saying: "Theoretically, the current limit of operation is three seconds, but I had better not activate Brain-Machine Overclocking while the Synaptic Accelerator is on in the future.
Or, after activating, I should control the amount of data I receive and output while my thoughts are accelerated.
That state just made me feel like I became a machine without limits... even if cooling and my brain can handle it, the other hardware of my body can't keep up.
But this Network Access Vault is indeed impressive, able to handle such a large amount of data exchange, with ample memory, and the power of the built-in co-processor is not low, at least 40% higher than before... cough."
He coughed twice.
Victor quickly told him to lie down and rest: "You tested to your limits just now! Were you using the equipment in my room for testing?"
"Uh, I just saw the connected equipment and instinctively wanted to try it... Sorry, Old Wei."
Mercer sincerely apologized.
"That's a small matter... I'm just worried you'll get hurt."
Victor frowned, looked at the data, and after a while sighed: "It seems I was a bit too optimistic.
Mercer, you really need to be cautious when using this experimental prosthetic setup on yourself.
Even comparing with top Arasaka hackers, at full power they might only reach 60% of your instantaneous computing capability, and I'm talking about their peak, while comparing to your average level.
The actual power of your receptor opertation during runtime even exceeds the highest power initially designed for this setup...
This setup lacks a power restriction protection, which means once you activate Brain-Machine Overclocking, the protection limits on all your prosthetics become ineffective, meaning you fully unleash your brain's computing power.
If you then start the Synaptic Accelerator... your brain power will reach theoretically near-maximum figures, even surpassing your brain's limits.
If it were an ordinary Network Access Vault, even if your brain speeds to the limit, the amount of data it can receive and transmit per second is limited.
But your particular Vault design has a considerable excess capacity, which I suspect was made for built-in AI operational room.
And you're using your brain to fully utilize that part of the space!
This isn't the amount of data a human can process in such a short time!
Forcing the brain to overclock to such a degree, even with cooling to help your brain cool down, it will become overwhelmed due to other factors.
My advice is, if you really want to use them simultaneously, it would be best to add a limit to the Network Access Vault, reducing your maximum data transfer rate, artificially add a power protection to your brain's power, and lower your max frequency while overclocking.
Or, just be more cautious yourself."
Mercer nodded, already understanding the crux.
Using the Synaptic Accelerator and Brain-Machine Overclocking together is doable.
But in this state, you can't act recklessly like you're connected to a massive server.
This is no longer something that cooling can solve, but rather human brains have limits, and beyond that point, every additional second does permanent damage to the brain.
His body can't support his brain working in that state either, his heart, lungs, nerves will be damaged from running at over-power.
The best way to use it is to control the brain's output power at the edge of the limit during the time when Brain-Machine Overclocking and Synaptic Acceleration slow down time.
However...
"Ha, this is enough, as long as I control myself and don't get lost in the accelerated time after overclocking, blindly calling on brainpower, but instead maintaining the brainpower at the edge of the limit.
Then I can exhibit at least double the strength from before without deep diving!
If there's server or hacker chair processing power support, coupled with stronger cooling, my level during deep diving will also greatly improve!
Old Wei, I feel like if I can turn on the Synaptic Accelerator during deep dives, I can now take on stray AIs one-on-one!"
Mercer finished, joyfully saying: "Facing enemies with Sianwistan, I don't have to worry so much either, they speed up physically, I speed up mentally, they run 20 meters in a second, I hack them 20 times in a second...
By that time, as long as the opponent's ICE program isn't too exaggerated, I can basically compare speed head-on with such enemies under Brain-Machine Overclocking and the Synaptic Accelerator!"