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Article #382Re: Hardware for new Linux box
From: Michael Bungey
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 00:00
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In article <80kieh$bu7$1@hek.netix.org.uk>, at 20:41:53 on Sat, 13 Nov 1999, C. Newport <crn@NOSPAM.netunix.com> spewed forth the following: >Marcus Durham (Marcus@zenn.demon.co.uk) wrote: >: In article <80jdh2$8um$1@hek.netix.org.uk> C. Newport >: <crn@NOSPAM.netunix.com> shared the following with us in demon.tech.pc: >: [snip] >: >Richard is winding you up - and trying to start a dick-size contest. >: >NEVER overclock, particularly a Celeron. It is the fast track to grief. >: [snip] > >: Sorry, I do believe that you are talking out of your backside. This >: machine has been running a Celeron 466 at 582 for 3 months. It's fast, >: stable and more reliable than my previous K6 300 ABIT setup. > >So how come about 50% of the people who I try to help with obscure >crashes are overclocking celerons. The problem always goes away >when they put it back to standard. > >The fact that you have got away with it so far does not indicate that this >is a reliable practice. If a 466 could be reliably run at 582 then >Intel would label them as 550 and charge more money for them. > > The problem is adequate cooling I should think... that's the only reason it'd crash overclocked but not normally clocked => Buy a better heatsink/fan =) -- Michael Bungey
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,57abaeb217d681cb X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,57abaeb217d681cb X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public From: Michael Bungey <spam@fuelwise.clara.co.uk> Subject: Re: Hardware for new Linux box Date: 1999/11/16 Message-ID: <2L7EeNAkFIM4EwfC@clara.net> X-Deja-AN: 549218106 References: <942201399snz@siberia.demon.co.uk> <weUWrTASVaL4EwHo@zenn.demon.co.uk> <80kieh$bu7$1@hek.netix.org.uk> X-Complaints-To: abuse@clara.net X-Trace: nnrp3.clara.net 942747872 195.8.81.4 (Tue, 16 Nov 1999 10:24:32 GMT) Organization: I'm never organzed ;) MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 10:24:32 GMT Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,demon.tech.pc