ot: the best online computer parts store?

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:54:39PM -0400, Doug Smith wrote:
> I guess you wouldn't want to overclock.  The chief reason I can think
> of for this is the expense of buying another chip when you burn it up.
> It does sound like fun to have the thing going much faster than it is
> designed to do, and you might even need it.  

That's not the only reason. From my own experience, and from what I've
heard from others, you actually lose performance when you over-clock,
which I know sounds counter-intuitive, but it's true. I actually
measured it in some way in 2000, so I don't recall what I did anymore,
but the end-result is that I stopped over-clocking from that day on,
and have run cpus at their stated speeds since that day.

> Well, that's interesting.  I finally found out that you do it just by
> adjusting a jumper.  
> 

You used to do it that way. Like I said, you do it these days through
the bios, if the mb lets you.

Greg


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