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Date:      Tue, 13 Nov 2001 23:53:11 -0500
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "Nils Holland" <nils@tisys.org>, "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        "Alex Obradovic" <aobradovic@ballantyneinc.com>, "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: overclocking and freebsd
Message-ID:  <20011114045338.CD08A37B405@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 06:01:15 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

>>Most overclockers think they gain performance, but they don't seem to
>>notice that even the best performace isn't worth a damn if their system
>>crashes all ten minutes.
>>
>
>:-)  Plus, all the overclocking websites say to do it _gradually_ and 
>make changes in the smallest increments, spaced quite some time apart,
>so that if the system becomes unstable you can move it back.  Of course,
>the game playing teenagers that are too smart for their own good are
>going to be in much to big a hurry to bother reading the instructions
>even from the overclockers themselves.

note: you also have to use a cooling fan heavier duty then a cooler
master.  I've known a lot of people have have successfully overclocked
from between 50-200mhz, with out any crashes what-so-ever.

---
doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net



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