From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 9 22:00:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA09739 for current-outgoing; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 22:00:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA09732 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 22:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net by mx.serv.net (8.7.5/SERV Revision: 2.30) id WAA25230; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 22:00:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA14947; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 21:58:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199706100458.VAA14947@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) cc: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: overclocking In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 09 Jun 97 15:22:58 -0700. <199706092222.PAA01036@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 21:58:38 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >However, I suggest you invest some money on SCSI drives before you >even try overclocking. (Get the 8ms/7,200rpm variants too -- >10ms/5,400rpm won't do much better.) The bottleneck of your machine >during compilation should be the disks, not the CPU. Satoshi! Shame on you... Haven't you learned anything from our friend Joe Greco?? You're betting off buying two 2GB 5400RPM drives and striping them with ccd, than buying one 4GB 7200RPM drive. You *will* get better performance in almost all benchmarks, and most real-world use. I'm surprised, especially after Jordan's recent conversion to this religion, trumpets blaring loudly and all. Trust me. Stripe your drives. It's worth it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------