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Date:      Tue, 24 Feb 1998 20:09:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        freebsd@atipa.com (Atipa)
Cc:        adoane@eagle.ais.net, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dual proc PII MB of choice?
Message-ID:  <199802250109.UAA05674@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980224172723.5525B-100000@dot.ishiboo.com> from Atipa at "Feb 24, 98 05:33:07 pm"

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Atipa said:
> 
> 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. 
> 
Are you sure?  It is probably that many of those who feel that
they must overclock are running lmbench and dhrystone all day.
Indeed, overclocking often improves lmbench performance significantly,
and the amount of work done with that additional lmbench performance
means that even more pages of performance reports can be output
each day!!! :-).

(Sorry, I couldn't resist :-)).

-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.

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