Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 18:49:52 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: overclocking Message-ID: <E0wbF8D-0000Nr-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Jun 1997 15:22:58 PDT." <199706092222.PAA01036@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> References: <199706092222.PAA01036@vader.cs.berkeley.edu>
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In message <199706092222.PAA01036@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> Satoshi Asami writes: : However, I suggest you invest some money on SCSI drives before you : even try overclocking. (Get the 8ms/7,200rpm variants too -- : 10ms/5,400rpm won't do much better.) The bottleneck of your machine : during compilation should be the disks, not the CPU. I found about a 250% improvement in speed going from a JAZ drive to a 10ms 5400rpm drive. Warner
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