From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 12 2:29:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC8337B416 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 02:29:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id fACAT9T12211; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 02:29:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Mike Meyer" , "Alex Obradovic" Cc: Subject: RE: overclocking and freebsd Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 02:29:08 -0800 Message-ID: <00b201c16b64$dcc53d60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <15342.23787.396083.668200@guru.mired.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mike Meyer >Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 3:12 AM >To: Alex Obradovic >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: overclocking and freebsd > > >Alex Obradovic types: >> Has anyone been able to overclock successfully with FreeBSD? I was >> running my Pentium 3-850 at 1 Gghz for a year with Win 2K. After I >> scrapped windows and installed FreeBSD, I had to go down to 850 since >> my system would have lots of disk issues, and it would not boot. >> >> Any overclockers out there? > >While there are some, the general consensus seems to be that FreeBSD >pushes the hardware more than Windows, That, and also Windows will happily allow you to corrupt it's internal data structures with garbage before it tells you that anything's going on. Lots of people that have overclocked Windows systems think that everything is fine because there's no error messages and programs all seem to work, but they get occassional lockups and sometimes files that are corrupted, and they put those down to "general Windows instability" not understanding that it's their overclocking that's the culprit. 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