Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 10:22:40 -0400 From: "Sandro Mancuso" <sandromancuso@hotmail.com> To: "'Benjamin Krueger'" <benjamin@macguire.net>, "'Bob Bomar'" <bulldog@fxp.org> Cc: "'James Long'" <list@ns.museum.rain.com>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: overclocking and freebsd Message-ID: <008201c1e3bf$d598e3b0$6400a8c0@windows> In-Reply-To: <20020411213855.D9962@rain.macguire.net>
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Wouldn't all this come down to the same things as usual? Cooling. I also think the problem isn't so much the cpu, but upping the speed on the system bus. You're speeding up everything, not just the CPU if you increase the multiplier. I have a box running freebsd 4.5 stable that has a few services running, and I toy with it regularly. Were it not for my STUPID idea to start using a KVM switch (You all know how much FreeBSD likes those eh?) I had a 60+ day uptime going on it. It's an AMD K62-450... running at 550 mhz. Massive cooling on the cpu of course, because for those that don't know, These CPU's didn't take well to overclocking - unfortunate, as they are very fast, and they weren't locked. People that use the box are very impressed with its compile speed. I haven't ever had a problem with it. By the way, when I overclocked this machine on Windows 2000 pro, it wouldn't last more than 30-35 minutes. Moral of the story: It all depends on how its overclocked. Obviously with newer CPU's this isn't nearly as easy... >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd- >questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Benjamin Krueger >Sent: April 12, 2002 12:39 AM >To: Bob Bomar >Cc: James Long; questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: overclocking and freebsd > >* Bob Bomar (bulldog@fxp.org) [020411 21:21]: >> > >> > FreeBSD pushes the hardware pretty hard as it is. I would bet you >> > a dozen doughnuts that FreeBSD at 850 MHz will outperform Win2k at >> > 1 GHz. >> > >> >> I will actually prove that. My P-166 running 4.4-Release, apache, >> postfix, mysql, and DNS ran faster than my PII-400 running just a >> base Win 98. I mean faster as in, it started up faster, and it >> ran Star Office faster, did i metion that the P-166 was running X? >> >> -- >> |------------------------------------| >> | Bob Bomar | >> | bulldog@fxp.org | >> | http://fly.homeunix.org/~bob | >> |====================================| >> | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve | >> | http://www.FreeBSD.org | >> |------------------------------------| > >Got a url for that proof? I'm incredibly interested in reading it. ;) > >-- >Benjamin Krueger > >"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about." >- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Send mail w/ subject 'send public key' or query for (0x251A4B18) >Fingerprint = A642 F299 C1C1 C828 F186 A851 CFF0 7711 251A 4B18 > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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