Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 06:01:15 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Nils Holland" <nils@tisys.org> Cc: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, "Alex Obradovic" <aobradovic@ballantyneinc.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: overclocking and freebsd Message-ID: <003001c16b82$7e4bc560$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20011112123925.O1793-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: nils@jodie.ncptiddische.net [mailto:nils@jodie.ncptiddische.net]On >Behalf Of Nils Holland >Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 3:44 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Mike Meyer; Alex Obradovic; questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: overclocking and freebsd > > >Anyway, I have often helped local computer users with their problems. Many >times, especially those *game-playing teenagers* complained about their >systems crashing all of the time. A closer look revealed that they had >overclocked their CPUs to about the maximum that's possible, and it's >really not strange if under such circumstances a computer doesn't run >reliably. > >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. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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