On Friday 20 May 2005 11:44 am, Allen Brown wrote: > On Fri, 20 May 2005, walter fry wrote: > >> Of course I don't overclock. I leave that to children. > > > > lets keep in mind oc also results in extra heat > > Indeed. Extra heat shortens the life of electronics in many > ways. But extra current plus extra heat gives a double whammy > to the metal traces. The result is greatly increased > electromigration. That is a phenomenon where the metal conductor > slowly flows like a liquid under the pressure of the electrons > coursing thru it. It flows fastest where the metal necks down > or turns. That forms voids at those discontinuities. And voids > are hard failures. (He's dead Jim.) Electromigration is highly > non-linear. So a small increase in current + temperature can > reduce the life of your chip(s) from 20 years to <1 year. > > I have had four computers. I kept them for about 15 years (CP/M), > 10 years (Amiga), 5 years (Linux+Dell), 1 year (Linux+Abit but > flakey). I intend to keep the current one (Linux+Gigabyte) for > at least 5 years. I don't need to be shortening its life.
I have a 366 cel that ran at 550 (150%) for over 4 years. its not turned on right now (not for about a year), but it still works fine. It overclocks real easy, and doesnt even use special cooling. Some CPU's will overclock real good, some really badly. Jamie > -- > Allen Brown > work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Heck is where people go who don't believe in gosh. > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
