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Subject: Re: AMD or Pentium4?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:25:54 04/10/03

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On April 10, 2003 at 20:45:41, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On April 10, 2003 at 11:34:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>I'm not knocking your box at all, as I said previously you have driven it to the
>>lowest latency I have ever seen.  But for every success story, there are a
>>thousand
>>horror stories.  I've seen too many of 'em here.  "It works fine on all the
>>normal
>>test programs but I am getting a program crash on my real application.  When I
>>turn the clock back down, it works fine."
>>
>>That's not the way to spend time debugging...
>
>What in the world is your point?

That overclocking leads to bugs that are very difficult to find.  Because
they don't show up on _other_ machines.

Was that too hard to understand?

Join a discussion late and you miss a lot.
>
>That overclocked processors don't necessarily work right? I think that's already
>crystal clear to everybody.

Not to everybody.  Which is why I mentioned the problem.

>
>I don't understand your need to chime in with what amounts to drivel every time
>the word overclock is mentioned.

Why did _you_ chime in?  Did you offer anything?

Didn't think so...

>
>-Tom



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