From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Feb 24 16:24:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA16062 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:24:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from onyx.atipa.com (user6005@ns.atipa.com [208.128.22.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA16055 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:24:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@atipa.com) Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 1018); 25 Feb 1998 00:33:09 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:33:07 -0700 (MST) From: Atipa X-Sender: freebsd@dot.ishiboo.com To: "Andrew J. Doane" cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, "Andrew J. Doane" Subject: Re: Dual proc PII MB of choice? In-Reply-To: <199802242333.RAA29661@eagle.ais.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org {...} > The only thing I've found in the manual that I don't like is that > it appears you cannot independantly set the CPU and bus speeds (for > overclocking). You can on the ASUS and Super Micro. {...} Unless you like wasting your time troubleshooting and annoying your distributors, overclocking is a very very bad idea. Products are given a specific rating on purpose; it is not "random" as some may make it sound. Although it is in style to overclock, it should be strongly discouraged. Our failure rates on CPUs have jumped by an order of magnitude since people have started oc'ing. Overclocking voids most distributors warranties, and is not worth the risk. The CPU is hardly ever the bottleneck anyway. Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message