Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:47:46 01/21/99
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On January 21, 1999 at 10:46:53, Rajen Gupta wrote: >Experienced hardware testers on the internet have been doing this for years >without any ill effects to their chips. it is true that the life of a chip may >be reduced from 10 to 8 years but I wonder how many of us are planning to keep >the same processor for 10 years? When there is so much debate about increasing >the strength of a programme (by altering its playing style) ie by software >manipulation hardware manipulation is compleely overlooked. As I said before i >have got a tremendous boost by overclocking my celeron chip probably to pentium >450 levels of performance.(50%) increase from its original 300Mhz rated speed. > >Rajen Gupta that's not the same thing. The celeron is based on the 400-450mhz PII already, just slowed down. But a 400mhz PII is _different_ from a 450mhz PII (different voltages to control heat, etc.). Overclocking a leading edge chip is not safe, regardless of how many times it works. If you count noses, you find far more that try it and crash than you find folks that try it and are successful.
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