From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 1 21:41:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A6D37B405 for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 21:41:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA25185; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 23:41:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 23:41:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Mike Porter Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt , Sean Chittenden , Bsd Newbie , Subject: Re: overclocking and FreeBSD stablity... In-Reply-To: <200109020302.f8232pl07186@c1828785-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Mike Porter wrote: > > Certainly, you can overclock to a certain extent because most electrical > > parts are derated somewhat. But there are just so many variables that > > you can't just make blanket statements about overclocking. > > > That is certainly true. Even with identical hardware, as I mentioned above, > becuase of quality control, you may or may not get the same results as the > next guy. HOWEVER....software shouldn't affect it all that much except in > one area (granted this is a big concern for overclockers anyway): heat. If > your compiler produces better code than the other guy's it will run more > efficiently on your hardware, and generate less heat. Bzzzzzt.... A good compiler will try to put as many of the CPU's internal execution units to work as it can and therefore, if anything, there will be more heat -- not less. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, and ARM architectures under development - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message