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Subject: Re: If Steve's advise do not work, rise the CPU voltage

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 01:13:57 07/13/99

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On July 13, 1999 at 02:58:38, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>On July 13, 1999 at 00:17:02, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>
>>On July 13, 1999 at 00:03:50, Steve Lopez wrote:
>>
>>>On July 12, 1999 at 23:11:16, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>
>>>>This fellow used to hang out with the rest of us in my college's computer
>>>>center..  Whenever his program crashed, he would announce to us that there was a
>>>>problem with the school's main computer, and that we should save our work.
>>>>
>>>>He eventually dropped out of computers and became a folk singer.
>>>
>>>How ironic. I stopped being a blues singer and am now in computer software.
>>>
>>>And your point is...?
>>>
>>>-- Steve Lopez
>>>http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Hangar/5176/index.html
>>>http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/chesskamikazes
>>
>>My point is that I have never heard anyone suggest raising the voltage on the
>>CPU because a program crashed.
>>
>>bruce
>
>Obviously, not a first choice response to a program crash, but this is a
>standard overclockers technique to help achieve stability, but you must also pay
>attention to proper cooling. You can find articles about this all over the
>internet. Only some motherboards allow the voltage to be changed.

So finally it is a users fault if you overclock the CPU and wonder why some
progs crash.
I also tried out overclocking but went away from it. It isn't worth it.




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