Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 22:18:31 -0800 From: "FreeBSD" <freebsd@gtonet.net> To: "R Joseph Wright" <rjoseph@nwlink.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: CPU voltage (was Re: load spike strangeness) Message-ID: <NCBBILEECKNKMONCIAIOOEGDCGAA.freebsd@gtonet.net> In-Reply-To: <387824C0.F56ACAE4@nwlink.com>
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<snip> > > > Just to set the record straight, after going through some > logs, I found it > > > was NOT Jordan who was so against overclocking it was > Anti-Bill and a few > > > others. I'm not going to paste chat logs here but the > consensus was that > > > overclocking *can* cause strangeness. Not necessarily in > load checking but > > > in general. > > > > Of course, overclocking is not recommended. There is (and was) > > no doubt about that. But it certainly does not cause the kind > > of problems which this thread is about, originally. > > Awhile back I was having trouble getting through kernel compiles, the > machine would reboot during the compile. Someone on some newsgroup said > "are you overclocking?". I checked my settings. No, I wasn't > overclocking. But my voltage setting looked wrong. It was set at 2.2 > volts or whatever and I thought it was supposed to be at 2.4. So I > changed it to 2.4. My problem was solved. I was flying through the > compiles. Then I was looking through my motherboard manual and realized > that it was supposed to be set at 2.2 after all. I prefer it the way it > is though. Do you think there is anything wrong with that? > > > -- > Best Regards, Joseph > > You will do foolish things, > but do them with enthusiasm. Colette. Again, I stand by my original statement that overclocking is never recommended and *CAN* cause random strangeness. What you do with your box is completely up to you. In short: whatever floats your boat. Glad to hear you can compile now. FreeBSD freebsd@gtonet.net "LinSUX is only free if your time is worthless" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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