Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 14:54:11 02/10/00
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On February 10, 2000 at 16:50:10, Robert Hyatt wrote: >I would hope "never". This is not exactly the most reliable thing to do to >hardware. Remember that for every system hang you see, there were hundreds of >thousands of cases where an instruction produced the wrong result but was in >"user-land" where it didn't crash anything. > >It is incredibly risky to overclock when 'it counts'. Most of the time when people overclock, they use just enough cooling to keep the processor from overheating. I think this is a silly idea, because nothing is being done to decrease the switching times of the MOSFETs. The guys who do this are just asking for timing problems. (There are exceptions. Intel has been known to sell high frequency parts at low frequencies because of the market. This usually happens with Celerons.) However, if you decrease the temperature of the chip, the MOSFETs will perform better. So I wouldn't be surprised if a 1GHz Athlon at -40C is more stable than a 750MHz Athlon at 100C. I'm not saying it definitely is more stable, but I wouldn't be surprised... -Tom
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