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To: Street Walker who wrote (2222)	9/3/1998 11:45:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 14778

SW, I don't want to get into a whole discussion on overclocking but though I would chime in with my two cents. As a hardware chip and board designer I understand all too well the concepts of meeting timing and variation in silicon processes and why we build in substantial margin to account for variations in Temperature, voltage and process. Generally I think most people are foolish to attempt overclocking. Certainly it can be done and reliably in some cases. My biggest concern results when you start overclocking the PCI and memory bus. This is very dangerous. Overclocking the CPU assuming you have adequate cooling isn't as risky. Overall, I don't do it because I want my computers to run at optimally and not increase the probability of hardware error. I beleive we should adhere to the manufacturers specifications rather than try to second guess the work of the design engineer who knows much more about his product than I do.... Sean

To: Street Walker who wrote (2222)	9/3/1998 11:49:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Some overclockers are using the 132 bus setting but having stability problems. So Abit made the 124 bus setting possible, and if you have the AZZO ram, you can get tremendous speeds of 500 mhz plus with concrete stability by overclocking a 350/400/450 mhz chip. *concrete stability* This is some BS. I would love to see the bit error rate #'s on the above systems compared to systems operating within specifications. I wish some overclockers would do this and publish the results. More people would rightfully scared. In the systems I have build bit error rates will increase several orders of magnitude typically.. Sean