🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <14cu08.g51.ln@127.0.0.1>, Anahata
<anahata@freereed.demon.co.uk> writes
>On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 07:28:33 +0000, Oz <Oz@upthorpe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>>If you overclock, How do you know that everything will work all the
>>>time, in all circumstances, 
>>
>>Even if you don't, how do you KNOW this?
>>You don't. Mostly because things don't always work all the time and in
>>all circumstances whether guaranteed or not.
>
>It's not quite as vague as that.

<snip>

>While these conditions are met, the
>manufacturer can guarantee correct operation.  Note that "guarantee" is not
>scientific proof that it will work; it indicates that the supplier can
>afford to offer you your money back if it doesn't, because any remaining
>failures will be rare

Which is precisely what I said.

>>Your argument is specious in the face of the overwhelming evidence of
>>experience some of which has been posted to this thread.
>
>That's unneccesarily strong.  There are systematic limits to the operating
>conditions, and a chip as supplied and run at the correct clock speed and
>other conditions is very likely to be reliable.

Which does not preclude overspecced devices being labelled as lower spec
to meet demand.

>In other words, at a given clock speed a given chip will either work or it
>won't.  Of course that's not the only hardware reason why a PC may crash,
>but that's another matter.

True insofar as it might mostly work, except when conditions (which can
be complex combinations of levels and noise within the chip) mean it
doesn't. :-)

-- 
Oz