Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:52:21 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Overclocking Celeron 300A Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990120174905.29074C-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <19990118234635.A7597@oitunix.oit.umass.edu>
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On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Greg Pavelcak wrote: > I'm aware of the warnings against overclocking, and this isn't > intended as a troll, however: > > 1. tomsharware & anandtech indicate that overclocking the Celeron > 300A to 450 is pretty reliably doable. > > 2. At that speed, the Celeron performance stacks up pretty well > against a full-fledged PII (At least in WinStone and Quake). > BEWARE! On a P-II, Quacke has a memory bandwidth requirement of ~ 8MB/s. Quacke's worth as a benchmark is about the same as that of say MIPS rating, only less so. > 3. The Celeron costs about $70 PII450 $470 > > Even with a shortened lifespan and potential reliability > problems, it seems to me, based on this, that buying a Celeron > and overclocking it may be a perfectly rational thing to do. > Depends on what happens if your code silently produces very wrong data from time to time. 2+2=5 anywone? > I was just wondering if anyone here is doing that. If so how's it > working? Got a "worldstone"? Or am I missing something that makes > this a really stupid idea. > > (By the way, I'm not talking about a production machine, just my > home PC.) > > Greg Sander, no, I am no fan of Intel There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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