Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:43:35 +0100 (CET) From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Alex Obradovic <aobradovic@ballantyneinc.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: overclocking and freebsd Message-ID: <20011112123925.O1793-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> In-Reply-To: <00b201c16b64$dcc53d60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >Alex Obradovic <aobradovic@ballantyneinc.com> 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. Yes, and just therefore, I don't recommend people to overlock their system. I've never done it myself, I've only once underclocked a Pentium MMX 200 to 166 Mhz because a mainboard issue... 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. Greetings Nils Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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