Re: [TCLUG:9231] Observations and a non-Linux question

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

"Bad Things" can happen at any time, remember, every step up in
overclocking reduces the usable life time of your CPU, because you are
increasing the temperature of the chip, and also you can have other bad
things like electrons jumping across the surface of the silcone.. (i
belive it's called electron drift)  best thing you can do is to monitor
the temperatore of your CPU.  they sell indoor/outdoor digital temp
sensors at radio shack for < $15.  might be a good idea.. (i have been
meening to get one to monitor my hard drives.. it sounds like you have a
slightly older motherbaord, and probably don't have an lmsensors chip
onboard, to monitor fans and temps.

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Christopher Reid Palmer wrote:

> Reading about Apple's flakiness about fulfilling G4 orders reminded me
> that I can't wait for that ridiculous company to die out. Yes, it's nice
> that the boxes are non-beige and, more importantly, that they open up nice
> and easy so you can tweak things.
> 
> The irony is that the case is otherwise designed to inhibit tweaking:
> way too short power cables, IDE cables with only one connector, weirdly
> placed drive bays (out of the reach of the stunted power cables). The
> first time I opened up a G3 to perform some surgery, I nearly shat: a
> Maxtor IDE disk! For $2000 I expect something better than what would go
> great in a Packard Bell.
> 
> So yesterday I irrevocably abandoned my Mac roots: I overclocked my CPU.
> :) It's an AMD K6@200MHz, bumped up to 233MHz.
> 
> To make sure it was stable, I did a batch compress of 11 wavs to mp3s.
> That took 2:40. Would anyone agree that if the CPU runs overclocked at
> 100% for 2:40 and doesn't fail, that it's safe to run it overclocked? Are
> there any other tests I should perform?
> 
> I plan to bump up the multiplier by 0.5 every few days or so until I get
> weirdness, then I'll back off. Any bets as to how high I'll get? :)
> 
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