From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 12 3:44:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (pns.wobline.de [212.68.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 945E637B405 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 03:44:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from colt.ncptiddische.net (ppp-137.wobline.de [212.68.69.145]) by mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/tw-20010821) with ESMTP id fACBhfr25156; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:43:42 +0100 Received: from jodie.ncptiddische.net (jodie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.2]) by colt.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fACBi1V13323; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:44:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: from jodie.ncptiddische.net (jodie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.2]) by jodie.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fACBhZV01826; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:44:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:43:35 +0100 (CET) From: Nils Holland To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Mike Meyer , Alex Obradovic , Subject: RE: overclocking and freebsd In-Reply-To: <00b201c16b64$dcc53d60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Message-ID: <20011112123925.O1793-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >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, > > That, and also Windows will happily allow you to corrupt it's internal > data structures with garbage before it tells you that anything's going on. > Lots of people that have overclocked Windows systems think that everything > is fine because there's no error messages and programs all seem to work, > but they get occassional lockups and sometimes files that are corrupted, > and they put those down to "general Windows instability" not understanding > that > it's their overclocking that's the culprit. Yes, and just therefore, I don't recommend people to overlock their system. I've never done it myself, I've only once underclocked a Pentium MMX 200 to 166 Mhz because a mainboard issue... Anyway, I have often helped local computer users with their problems. Many times, especially those *game-playing teenagers* complained about their systems crashing all of the time. A closer look revealed that they had overclocked their CPUs to about the maximum that's possible, and it's really not strange if under such circumstances a computer doesn't run reliably. Most overclockers think they gain performance, but they don't seem to notice that even the best performace isn't worth a damn if their system crashes all ten minutes. Greetings Nils Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message