From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 20 07:55:00 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA14246 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 07:55:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA14233 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 07:54:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id RAA27017; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:52:22 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:52:21 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Greg Pavelcak cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Overclocking Celeron 300A In-Reply-To: <19990118234635.A7597@oitunix.oit.umass.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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