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Michael Bungey <spam@fuelwise.clara.co.uk> writes:

> >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 =)

I suspect that it is more than cooling, there are variations in
manufacturing chips. Should the metal layer be slightly under-etched
then the tracks would be slightly wider, these would have a higher
capacitance and would then only run reliably at lower speeds.

I am certain that INTEL et al will measure each chip to see what speed
they will reliably run at and then sell them at that speed/price to maximise
their profits.

Personally I would never over-clock any components as the risk of
loosing data would be much more costly than the benefit of that little
extra speed of the processor. The processor is only one component that
makes up the total speed of an application.

Robin