From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 20: 5:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.museum.rain.com (gw-ipinc.museum.rain.com [206.29.169.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8135837B404 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 20:05:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from list@localhost) by ns.museum.rain.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3C35Y725508 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 20:05:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from list) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 20:05:34 -0700 From: James Long To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: overclocking and freebsd Message-ID: <20020411200534.A25472@ns.museum.rain.com> References: <20011110215343.C961@bsd.alexe.org> <20020411182041.H45395@darius.2y.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020411182041.H45395@darius.2y.net>; from morsal@swipnet.se on Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 06:20:42PM +0200 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 On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 06:20:42PM +0200, Morsal Rodbay wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 09:53:43PM -0800, Alex Obradovic wrote: > > 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? > > > > Alex > > FreeBSD is very sensitive, it panics when u overclock. > FreeBSD pushes the hardware pretty hard as it is. I would bet you a dozen doughnuts that FreeBSD at 850 MHz will outperform Win2k at 1 GHz. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message