Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:04:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> To: Reinier Bezuidenhout <rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Overclocking a Pentium 120 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980203125926.5843A-100000@dylan> In-Reply-To: <199802031223.OAA12169@oskar.nanoteq.co.za>
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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/
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