Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:11:17 -0700 (MST) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: adoane@eagle.ais.net, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual proc PII MB of choice? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980224191024.7663B-100000@dot.ishiboo.com> In-Reply-To: <199802250109.UAA05674@dyson.iquest.net>
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If you could overclock a hard drive I'd have to agree.. :) (... Lets see how this Cheetah does at 15,000 RPM... ) Kevin On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, John S. Dyson wrote: > 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
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