On Tuesday 10 December 2002 19:39, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
Dear Karol,
Hello Peter...
This is said in the mildest, least confrontational manner, please do not regard this a "Troll Bait". :0)
Overclocking is the premier way to create unstability.
Absolutely.... if you don't know what you're doing.
The manufacturers have made the most emphatic statements that the Official stated clock frequencies are the recommended MAX. I know of no chip brand that does NOT VOID their warrantee for overclocking.
True.
The mainframe manufacturers actually 'underclock' systems that are sold to customers that DEMAND reliability.
Although I don't know much, if anything, about mainframes, I can surely understand the logic behind that decision.
On overclocked systems the errors that occur most are the most difficult to diagnose and resolve. Intermittant, random lockups, hangs, seg faults, corrupted data are only the start of the catalog of greif caused by chips stressed to their limit of reliability.
I actually had all those things you specify on my PC. No, not this one, but my old Pentium I PC whose fans died (all the fans: CPU, PS, etc.).
Even one in a billion bytes of data corrupted can be stored and propagated into other apps and data. PC usually do NOT use ECC RAM so there is little or no chance that corrupted data will always be detected. Have you ever heard of a computer that printed a check for millions of $'s instead of tens of $'s? I have.
FYI, I don't have ECC RAM in this PC.
Overclocking is a concept promoted by Marketeers to gull the unsuspecting gullable customers; it has the ring of "Something forr Free".
Who exactly do you mean by "Marketeers"? Certainly not the company representatives (e.g., you want 100 more MHz? pay $100 more). After all, no mainstream PC vendor (e.g., Dell, Gateway) overclocks any parts of their PC. Like I said, overclocking can be very dangerous if you do not know what you are going. Frankly, I do. When I put together this PC, I bought each part individually. Knowing full well that I would want to overclock my CPU/RAM/video card/etc, I bought parts which could withstand it. 340W AMD recommended P/S. Thermalright AX7 heatsink. Arctic Silver 3 thermal paste. Nice fan with a speed control. Crucial RAM. Nice EPoX motherboard. etc. Having little cash to throw around and wanting financially-free speed boosts, overclocking is the way to go. Like I said, this is certainly not for those who don't know what they are doing. Of course, I read reviews (places like Anandtech, Overclockers.com, etc.) that tell me how far my parts can go. That said, I have experienced no instability as a result of my overclocking. -- Karol Pietrzak <noodlez84@earthlink.net> PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0