patrick wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> > This is true about overclocking destroying hardware. Some chips can't even
> > run stably at their intended clockspeed. Intel's PIII 1.3GHz had so many
> > bloody problems they finally concluded the only way to get it to run cool
> > enough as well as stably was to UNDER-clock it....I think they eventually
> > got it running nice at about 800Mhz.
> >
> > Lonny Selinger
>
> the worst overclocking can do is possibly limit the life of your
> overclocked parts. lets see i have a athlon 700 clocked to
> 805. my memory is set to 153. that means that my memory
> and processor wont last the 10 years its suppposed to
> maybe only 5. can u imagine where amd and linux will
> be in 5 years. i think i will using a hammer at 4.5
> gig. with some kind of new memory that has no latency at all.
>
> :)
>
> maybe we'll be accessory our operating systems with our
> minds after all
Not to get off topic here, but what do you guys do/plan to do with old
parts/components/systems when you're done with them? Charity, auction, trash,
or assimilate?
Paul R
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