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To: doniam who wrote (11094)7/26/2000 9:00:32 PM
From: russet  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
<<<OK Gang- Here is my question. The machine is a celeron 300a overclocked to 450, 128 ram, Matrox? card 8mg, WIN98SE, BH6 motherboard. Been having for the last several days blue screens, freeze ups and spontaneous reboots. >>>

I was talking to a bunch of tech folks in a computer research operation the other day. I brought up the subject of overclocking and several of the engineers said I would be trading speed for endurance, and possibly proper operation. They implied the chips were constructed with materials that break down over time as electric signals travel along them, and overclocking hastens their demise. Overclocking can also produce unwanted electronic distortions that compromise the accuracy of the chip.

The engineers preferred to use multiple processors run at normal speeds to get the same results as overclocking. They said it was more expensive, but not subject to the above problems.

They also said that running multi-monitor situations with 10+ windows open with market depth a real time graphs as many traders do really runs a processor hard. That is exactly the kind of environment that the above mentioned distortions could case problems in, feeding back and causing problems throughout the computer system.

I have no understanding of this stuff, so I leave it as an open question to the thread. Any comments pro or con?
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