From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 9 17:50:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA25540 for current-outgoing; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 17:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA25527 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 17:50:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org [127.0.0.1] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.60 #1) id 0wbF8i-0000O3-00; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 18:50:24 -0600 To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Subject: Re: overclocking Cc: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com, current@freebsd.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> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 18:50:24 -0600 From: Warner Losh Message-Id: Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. P.S. And about a 5-10% improvement for overclocking the PPro 180 to 200. Warner