From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 3 05:03:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA20713 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 05:03:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wakko.visint.co.uk (wakko.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA20701 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 05:03:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@visint.co.uk) Received: from dylan (dylan.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.180]) by wakko.visint.co.uk (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA19333; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:02:18 GMT Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:04:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Stephen Roome X-Sender: steve@dylan To: Reinier Bezuidenhout cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Overclocking a Pentium 120 In-Reply-To: <199802031223.OAA12169@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Reinier Bezuidenhout wrote: > > 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 :) I'll try it on my home machine, but I think you probably know what I mean about people not taking much care before overclocking. My computer here at work is a 150 running at 166, it's been like this for over a year without any obvious overclocking related problems. [During the first few weeks I backed up my data more slightly more regularly!] Although it's not overclocked much, and it's just the processor, not the bus, isn't it still worth excercising some caution ? steve Steve Roome - Vision Interactive Ltd. Tel:+44(0)117 9730597 Home:+44(0)976 241342 WWW: http://dylan.visint.co.uk/