RE: Reliability (was : In praise of Overclockers.co.uk)

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

Hmm, I have to disagree (a little) on this one.

Overclocking is done in the main, I feel, as a sport in it's own right,
and as such, is exceptionally interesting. I have a few friends who are
into OCing kit, and some of the machines are works of absolute beauty..
(like, an aluminium case, with side windows, where the GPU and CPU are
liquid cooled, the coolant liquid is flourescent, and there is a dark
light fitted into the case)

I am finding myself more inclined to use a single server for all house
functions, but my present server kit isn't capable of being overclocked.
(I have tried)

As for gaming (my other passion) Hell yes. A fair few of the guys on
madonion.com
are getting performance the rest of us won't see for another year or so..

Some of the bench numbers for P4 liquid cooled systems and Geforce three
cards
will put any speed demon being sold over the counter to shame.

As for Keith's point, yes, you are trading off performance against
endurance
and
reliability, however the numbers are such that overclocked kit will in
almost all
certainty be retired as obsolete long before it fails under stress.

Ian.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McCall [mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 February 2002 13:32
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Reliability (was : In praise of
Overclockers.co.uk)


> I have to start by saying that I have never overclocked a processor in
my
life.

I have done two.

My 486SX25 was over clocked to 40Mhz (by changing the oscillator chip on a
socket in the mobo) and the first Pentium I bought - a 75Mhz has run (and
is
still running) at 100Mz from the day I built it. These were very
significant
performance upgrades for little or no outlay.

Todays machines are so fast and so cheap these is little point in
overclocking other than doing it for the sake of it.

M.




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