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paul wrote in message <6vf66s$9k0$1@ftp.curtin.edu.au>...

>Just to boast...


Just to BS, you mean?

>I just installed Linux on a 333 Celeron processor and am overclocking it to
>550MHz (5x112MHz) on a 100MHz Asus motherboard with 512Mb RAM.  It has a
>Adaptec 2940UW scsi controller running Ultra Wide Connectors to two 9.2Gb
UW
>7200 rpm SCSI DISKS.  Oh and it has a Glint 4000 video card just for fun.


One thing: Intel clock locked the Celeron processor.  You can't overclock
the Celeron (a) processors because the L2 cache (128KB) embedded within the
core of the processor runs at full processor speed.  550MHz would take out
the cache in a heartbeat (Intel has many problems keeping the cache stable
at 333MHz).

>Not that I have any need for this.. I just wanted to see what Linux would
do
>under these circumstances.  The box compiled the 2.0.35 Kernel, with
>modules,  in just under 5 seconds.  I was amazed!


We have a Pentium II 400MHz system, 256MB of RAM, and a bunch of fast disks
<g> - Linux still takes time to compile, more than the five seconds you
specified.

>By the way.. it is still slow running NT server.


I have an AMD K6-2 300MHz processor.  It runs both NT server, Windows 98,
and Linux quite nicely.

>p.s. Don't try this at home.. the box sounds like a jet aeroplane with
three
>fans in it!


Over clock a chip by a factor of nearly 1.75 needs a kryotech heat sink, or
at least a refrigeration unit.  I think your boasting is a tad off scale.
<G>

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