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Article #1089Re: Overclocking- Please reply.
From: Jan Mlotkiewicz
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:00
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In article <abakus.1786.001191E2@informatik.uni-bremen.de>, Holger Bruns <abakus@informatik.uni-bremen.de> writes >In article <01bbea80$452b4e00$LocalHost@waroth> >"Waroth Khantanaphar" <waroth@loxinfo.co.th> writes: > >I disagree. If an overclocked system runs with win95 successfully (this means: >without failures as long as the system is overclocked) and doesn't run with >any other OS, this system is not useful, because Win95 may fail, too. > What's with the may fail - how about guaranteed to fail... after all it is an MS product, and they NEVER EVER crash, oh no, far from it ;) >Hence I would never overclock a computer system. If the present computer works >to slow, I would purchase a better one. > >Regards, >Holger > On the overclocking note, it's not the best thing to do to your machine, since in time, it will cause problems. If you are wanting to upgrade a machine but find a new processor/motherboard is too costly, a little extra RAM or some DRAM/VRAM/<whatever your card takes> for the graphics card, and a little bit of clever setup routines will make a difference.. -- Jan Mlotkiewicz Wintel - No Thanks :) UNIX - Cheer DAMN Loud!!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,199819e6eadd3979 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: fa57c,199819e6eadd3979 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa57c,public X-Google-Thread: f70d1,199819e6eadd3979 X-Google-Attributes: gidf70d1,public X-Google-Thread: 108c83,199819e6eadd3979 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,199819e6eadd3979 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public X-Google-Thread: 10a2ed,79c220acf85c25c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a2ed,public X-Google-Thread: 11196f,79c220acf85c25c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid11196f,public From: Jan Mlotkiewicz <jan@dode.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Overclocking- Please reply. Date: 1996/12/19 Message-ID: <wvYcBAAjsRuyIwM$@dode.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 204892715 distribution: world x-nntp-posting-host: dode.demon.co.uk references: <01bbea3b$acf184e0$19829a89@dtaylor.st.nepean.uws.edu.au> organization: angel 1 mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.homedesigned,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,aus.computers,aus.computers.ibm-pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems