Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 21:41:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Newbie <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: overclocking and FreeBSD stablity... Message-ID: <20010901044138.13952.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <00dc01c1329d$b0b523c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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--- Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > > My $0.02 is that the base of the troubles is the machine code that the > compiler produces. I suspect that when a CPU is overclocked that unless > the parts are good that the CPU is unable to execute SOME of it's > opcodes, > opcodes that produce certain electrical patterns inside of the CPU that > may ring and generate electrical wave colissions. While I'm not an EE > I do know that lengths of traces and such inside of a CPU are held to > precise tolerances in order to deal with clock propagations and such. > It's > not just the cooling but when you overclock the CPU you can have signals > arriving at internal parts of the CPU earlier than the designer > intended. I installed the OS with the processor running on default settings. The Celeron 300a was processor that really introduced overclocking to the masses (relatively speaking)... it's a very stable processor at 450mhz. And the board i'm using, the Abit BX-6, was the board that most people used to overclock this processor because it was also super stable (read the reviews on www.anandtech.com). I've had no problem with this combo and Win98se, Win2k and Redhat... but i've had nothing but problems with Solaris. So much for my trial with Solaris... I think Solaris is best suited for a Sparc platform... and not an x86 system. -Sameer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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