From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 11 3:11:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AF2437B419 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 03:11:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 51272 invoked by uid 100); 11 Nov 2001 11:11:39 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15342.23787.396083.668200@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 05:11:39 -0600 To: Alex Obradovic Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: overclocking and freebsd In-Reply-To: <89154647@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Alex Obradovic types: > Has anyone been able to overclock successfully with FreeBSD? I was > running my Pentium 3-850 at 1 Gghz for a year with Win 2K. After I > scrapped windows and installed FreeBSD, I had to go down to 850 since > my system would have lots of disk issues, and it would not boot. > > Any overclockers out there? While there are some, the general consensus seems to be that FreeBSD pushes the hardware more than Windows, meaning that the overclocking levels that work are much lower - typically around 5%, as opposed to the nearly 20% you got. Since turning off overclocking and trying again is the suggested response to any problems on an overclocked system, I don't bother. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message