From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Feb 24 17:11:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22904 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:11:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22887 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:11:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05674; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 20:09:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199802250109.UAA05674@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Dual proc PII MB of choice? In-Reply-To: from Atipa at "Feb 24, 98 05:33:07 pm" To: freebsd@atipa.com (Atipa) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 20:09:22 -0500 (EST) Cc: adoane@eagle.ais.net, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message