As someone who (until last week) worked in the semiconductor test industry (Teradyne, as a matter of fact - woohoo on the options I will no longer get), I sometimes wonder why people even want to overclock in the first place.
The testers that companies like Teradyne/LTX/Agilent/Schlumberger(sp?) create don't just test devices for a pass or a fail; they determine how well a device responded to the tests. All the devices that come from the fab are, true enough, the same. But not all of them can be clocked at the maximum speeds. Semiconductor testers "bin" the devices based on the test results. Some chips pass the 800MHz test; some fail but pass the 750MHz test; and so on.
Apparently, most people think that these companies falsely label some chips at higher speeds and some at lower speeds, just to make money off of the faster chips. That's not true (not always, at least). The reason why faster chips are far more expensive is because of yield - there aren't nearly as many devices that pass the highest level of testing (unless they make a ton of the devices). It is true, that sometimes, to meet demands, they do label faster chips as slower, but that's extremely rare, mainly because there is always plenty of demand for the faster chips, at any cost it seems.
So if you do overclock, you are making your system less reliable and less stable. You are putting your data at risk. And so on. Of course chip manufacturers don't want you to overclock - because if they encouraged it, the typical setup, say of Windoze on an x86, will be even less stable than it already is. And with the software as fickle as it is, we don't want any extra grievance from the hardware as well.
Overclockers live an illusion - just because your machine will boot and run doesn't mean that everything is working properly. If you do overclock, don't push others to do it - it's just not right. Someone once told me to figure out why something is the way it is before you go about trying to revolutionize everything. Go fig.
The camera may still be there, but the connection won't last very long. High winds always tend to take out cables first... If it's not the power, it's the phone.
And what's wrong with watching a hurricane scream by? Everyone's evacuated already.
Sure, sell your painting and your corn and your books. The argument says that IDEAS and THOUGHTS should not be sold - the ideas in the book, the image that you painted, etc. Other painters should be able to paint the same thing, right? Would you like it if someone copyrighted the linked list and you had to pay to use one every time? Go ahead and charge for the app, if you want to, but the ideas for the app should not be protected. Like SSH for Windows and WinAmp, people have gone and made money off of open sourced things.
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The testers that companies like Teradyne/LTX/Agilent/Schlumberger(sp?) create don't just test devices for a pass or a fail; they determine how well a device responded to the tests. All the devices that come from the fab are, true enough, the same. But not all of them can be clocked at the maximum speeds. Semiconductor testers "bin" the devices based on the test results. Some chips pass the 800MHz test; some fail but pass the 750MHz test; and so on.
Apparently, most people think that these companies falsely label some chips at higher speeds and some at lower speeds, just to make money off of the faster chips. That's not true (not always, at least). The reason why faster chips are far more expensive is because of yield - there aren't nearly as many devices that pass the highest level of testing (unless they make a ton of the devices). It is true, that sometimes, to meet demands, they do label faster chips as slower, but that's extremely rare, mainly because there is always plenty of demand for the faster chips, at any cost it seems.
So if you do overclock, you are making your system less reliable and less stable. You are putting your data at risk. And so on. Of course chip manufacturers don't want you to overclock - because if they encouraged it, the typical setup, say of Windoze on an x86, will be even less stable than it already is. And with the software as fickle as it is, we don't want any extra grievance from the hardware as well.
Overclockers live an illusion - just because your machine will boot and run doesn't mean that everything is working properly. If you do overclock, don't push others to do it - it's just not right. Someone once told me to figure out why something is the way it is before you go about trying to revolutionize everything. Go fig.
The camera may still be there, but the connection won't last very long. High winds always tend to take out cables first... If it's not the power, it's the phone.
And what's wrong with watching a hurricane scream by? Everyone's evacuated already.
Sure, sell your painting and your corn and your books. The argument says that IDEAS and THOUGHTS should not be sold - the ideas in the book, the image that you painted, etc. Other painters should be able to paint the same thing, right? Would you like it if someone copyrighted the linked list and you had to pay to use one every time? Go ahead and charge for the app, if you want to, but the ideas for the app should not be protected. Like SSH for Windows and WinAmp, people have gone and made money off of open sourced things.