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Re: Celeron or K6-2?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Willie Twonk)
Mon Oct 19 14:36:33 1998

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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 03:52:20 +0930
Reply-To: email@ace.net.au
From: "Willie Twonk" <email@ace.net.au>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
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I have been running a Celeron 266 (no cache) clocked at 400Mhz for about 2
months now mainly as a proxy server.  It's been up for 24/7 and hasn't
missed a beat.


>And one more thing that bothers me a LOT - it's about overclocking: As far
>as I see things it's something great for hacking and so on, the only
effect,
>as far as I understand things, being the electronic migration that finally
>will occur - an effect that will reduce the life of the processor with few
>years. But that's not the point. If, let's say, I'm interested in
>performance (at a reasonable low cost) and also in RELIABILIY - for a
system
>that must work around the clock without mistake, I ask you then: HOW
>reliable is an overclocked processor after all? Hmm?




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