[geeks] eek

[Will Mc Donald]

Hehe.

Ever since frying a Celeron 300A (admittedly it was my fault for inadequate
cooling) I've given up on oveclocking. Just run the damn things at their
rated clock speed. I can see the geek appeal of overclocking but it's just
too much of a pain in the ass. I am however considering a nice Koolance
water cooled case because of noise considerations.

And as for Athlon stability, so far the AMD 761 chipset has done me proud. I
don't think I've had to reboot this box because of instability since I built
it, about 3 months ago.

Will.

----- Original Message -----
From: <nick at snowman.net>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] eek


> did I just hear "Whine, my athlon overclocked by almost 500 megahurts runs
> hot and isn't that stable, WHINE"?
> Nick
>
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Zach Malone wrote:
>
> > In some cases that is true, however, in many cases, it is due to the
memory
> > being not quite standard.  I never had problems using Mushkin, Crucial,
and
> > other name brands, but I have heard it is a problem.  In terms of the
> > question regarding processors, the dual P3 600s will offer a more
"smooth"
> > feeling when you are running applications which support SMP (Like
Photoshop)
> > and when you are doing multiple things at a time, but peak speeds will
be
> > slower (fewer FPS in games, longer filter times in Photoshop, etc.).
> > Personally, I would go for the dual P3s, I have a dual P3 800 machine
and an
> > Athlon 1ghz @ 1.466 ghz machines, and I must say, the Slot-1/FC-PPGA
> > hardware is substantially more stable (and cooler) then the Athlon
hardware.
> > At present, most people disagree with that, but the extra 400mhz you can
> > pull off the Athlon processer just is not worth the assosiated Via based
> > instabilities IMHO.
> >     Zach