Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 22:35:09 -0500 From: "Chad Albert" <chadalbert@mchsi.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: overclocking and freebsd Message-ID: <015a01c1e1d3$0c95d6a0$14010f0a@spgcalbert> References: <20011110215343.C961@bsd.alexe.org> <20020411182041.H45395@darius.2y.net> <20020411200534.A25472@ns.museum.rain.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "James Long" <list@ns.museum.rain.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 10:05 PM Subject: Re: overclocking and freebsd > 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. Which service? Who gets to set it up? and I prefer Krispy Kreme ;-) Sorry, I just couldn't resist. I am one of those idiots that thinks each OS has it's strong points and none will out perform on the same hardware in every case. I am glad to see such great support for FreeBSD, but it has it's place as well as Windows. But what the heck, I just got flamed on a Windows security list for suggesting FreeBSD as a better web and firewall server to someone. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.346 / Virus Database: 194 - Release Date: 4/10/2002 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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