From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 31 21:52:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (mail.urx.com [63.170.19.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF16E37B405 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 21:52:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A99291D018A; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 21:52:34 -0700 Message-ID: <3B906992.FDA9BA1C@urx.com> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 21:52:34 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bsd Newbie Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: overclocking and FreeBSD stablity... References: <20010901044138.13952.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Bsd Newbie wrote: > > --- Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > My $0.02 is that the base of the troubles is the machine code that the > > compiler produces. I suspect that when a CPU is overclocked that unless > > the parts are good that the CPU is unable to execute SOME of it's > > opcodes, > > opcodes that produce certain electrical patterns inside of the CPU that > > may ring and generate electrical wave colissions. While I'm not an EE > > I do know that lengths of traces and such inside of a CPU are held to > > precise tolerances in order to deal with clock propagations and such. > > It's > > not just the cooling but when you overclock the CPU you can have signals > > arriving at internal parts of the CPU earlier than the designer > > intended. > > I installed the OS with the processor running on default settings. > > The Celeron 300a was processor that really introduced overclocking to the > masses (relatively speaking)... it's a very stable processor at 450mhz. > And the board i'm using, the Abit BX-6, was the board that most people > used to overclock this processor because it was also super stable (read > the reviews on www.anandtech.com). I had a 300a that was really stable until I started doing numerous buildworlds and building XFree86-3.3.x from the source. After awhile, the system simply hung. Later, after a couple of these hangs, I removed the heat sink. The cpu had cooked the thermal tape and overheated. It wouldn't even boot after that. Kent > > I've had no problem with this combo and Win98se, Win2k and Redhat... but > i've had nothing but problems with Solaris. > > So much for my trial with Solaris... I think Solaris is best suited for a > Sparc platform... and not an x86 system. > > -Sameer > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger > http://im.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA It is hard to believe you are soaring with Eagles (las águilas) when you accept SPAM like a mouse (el ratón). mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message