From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 8 22:34: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3184151B1 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 22:34:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from nwlink.com (ip97.r17.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.176.97]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA16724; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 22:33:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38782B0F.2A395764@nwlink.com> Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 22:30:39 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CPU voltage (was Re: load spike strangeness) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD wrote: > > > > > > > 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. But is raising the voltage considered overclocking? > FreeBSD > freebsd@gtonet.net > > "LinSUX is only free if your time is worthless" -- Best Regards, Joseph You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Colette. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message