Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 14:52:36 09/05/99
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On September 04, 1999 at 22:17:37, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On September 04, 1999 at 18:35:32, James T. Walker wrote: > >>I feel bad for Ed and the Rebel team. It appears that ED had a corrupted >>version of Rebel loaded and it crashed 10 times during the match. It was still >>a good game in which the GM IMHO played very good.(As GM's are prone to do). I >>think his opening selection was perfect for him. He seemed to be in control >>most of the way after gambiting a pawn. >>Jim Walker > > >No.. the problem was the overclocked AMD machine. If you overclock, you ask >for trouble. And in general, if you ask often enough, you receive what you >ask for... > >I'm not counting this game in the "Is the computer a GM?" rating calculation, >as obviously Rebel was broken by the hardware. > >For the record, overclocking AMD is _bad_. I have had several horror stories >from Crafty users about this. It seems that the AMD engineers know what their >chips can run at, and going beyond that gets you into deep water. Intel seems >to be more conservative rating their chips... In general, the problem is not overclocking, but the people who overclock and not doing it properly. They think if it boots up OK and "looks" OK after running it for an hour, that they were successful. Careful benchmarking and testing would reveal problems, but they don't do this. They don't cool properly, they use cheap memory, etc.
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