On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Lowell Gilbert <[email protected]>wrote:
> Adam Townsend <[email protected]> writes: > > > If I bump the processor back down to 3.8 > GHz > > it runs perfectly fine (ran it over 24 hours straight w/o any problems). > My > > Motherboard won't let me overclock past 4.2, it throws an error in the > BIOS > > about it, so the hardware can handle 4.0. > > Not that I'm positive it's your problem, but that last statement is > categorically wrong. If the parts were all in spec to run at 4GHz, it > wouldn't be called *over*clocking. It may work on some of these > systems, but you don't get any guarantees when you go beyond the > specifications (in fact, that's what the word "specifications" means). True... I like to push things a little sometimes & see what they can do. It's no big deal that it doesn't work @ 4GHz, it runs great @ stock speed. I just noticed this while I was messing around & thought I'd ask. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
