From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 3 04:26:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA15591 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 04:26:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oskar.nanoteq.co.za (www.absadirect.co.za [196.37.91.10] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA15489 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 04:25:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za) Received: (from rbezuide@localhost) by oskar.nanoteq.co.za (8.8.8/8.8.5) id OAA12169; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 14:23:40 +0200 (SAT) From: Reinier Bezuidenhout Message-Id: <199802031223.OAA12169@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> Subject: Re: Overclocking a Pentium 120 In-Reply-To: from Stephen Roome at "Feb 3, 98 12:13:40 pm" To: steve@visint.co.uk (Stephen Roome) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 14:22:24 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" > Yes, but will your IDE devices still work properly ? Will your ISA cards > still function, will your PCI cards work properly? Will the memory > timings now be too fast ? etc. etc. > > In short, is it really worth the risk when you could probably just buy a > P233MMX for whatever money you could make in the time it takes to mess > with the jumpers and then recover all your data when your hard disk > blows up and the processor melts. > I've been running my 166MMX machine at 75Mhz and CPU at 187MHz for the last month now and I did several "make world"s on the machine to check it's stability. It's my machine at work :) so its not that easy just to ask for a 233MHz machine, so you try to squeeze everything out of it that you can :) Oh ... and all the important data is on a server :) Reinier