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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.
> 

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