Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the stuff-ti-read dept.
i0n writes "The Chicago Tribune has an interesting article
about overclocking that talks of how gamers overclock their machines not
only to save money, but out of spite towards the processor industry. "
Sticking it to the man?
by
Anonymous Coward
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Why the aggressive/hateful connotation on everything nowdays? This practice is closer to hot-rodders souping up their cars than anyone trying to 'get back' at Intel. Guess what, you can bore out the cylinders on your car and put in new pistons, etc. It was 'designed' this way, just like Intel designed their chips with a little more thickness in the cylinder walls than they really needed, so to speak. My first OC was a 486SX25 that I ran at 40 or 50MHz. Had NOTHING to do with some warped sense of, "Oh, Intel is gonna be sorry now!" and much to do with, "Damn, look at it go now!"
IMNSHO, there's only two justifications for overclocking:
1: You're trying to get a bit more of a boost from an old chip.
2: You don't mind wasting your money on a slower chip if there's a chance that it can be overclocked.
Reason 2 implies that you're not going to be using the machine for any serious work, because, quite frankly, anybody who overclocks a server at work deserves to be fired. It's hard enough keeping a server going with as little downtime as possible as it is without throwing in random factors like overheating.
And as for overclocking dual CPU's, although it seems to be all the rage at the moment (with PPGA->SEPP adapters with dual jumpers and the cheaper dual MBs from Tekram, etc.), I have enough trouble handling overheating with my dual PII's as they are without overclocking them as well. (They start giving random compile errors and oopses at around 54-55 degrees Celcius.)
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Why the aggressive/hateful connotation on everything nowdays? This practice is closer to hot-rodders souping up their cars than anyone trying to 'get back' at Intel. Guess what, you can bore out the cylinders on your car and put in new pistons, etc. It was 'designed' this way, just like Intel designed their chips with a little more thickness in the cylinder walls than they really needed, so to speak. My first OC was a 486SX25 that I ran at 40 or 50MHz. Had NOTHING to do with some warped sense of, "Oh, Intel is gonna be sorry now!" and much to do with, "Damn, look at it go now!"
IMNSHO, there's only two justifications for overclocking:
1: You're trying to get a bit more of a boost from an old chip.
2: You don't mind wasting your money on a slower chip if there's a chance that it can be overclocked.
Reason 2 implies that you're not going to be using the machine for any serious work, because, quite frankly, anybody who overclocks a server at work deserves to be fired. It's hard enough keeping a server going with as little downtime as possible as it is without throwing in random factors like overheating.
And as for overclocking dual CPU's, although it seems to be all the rage at the moment (with PPGA->SEPP adapters with dual jumpers and the cheaper dual MBs from Tekram, etc.), I have enough trouble handling overheating with my dual PII's as they are without overclocking them as well. (They start giving random compile errors and oopses at around 54-55 degrees Celcius.)