Re: Overclocking USII

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On Monday 01 September 2008 13:51:57 Julian Ganz wrote:
> you also should keep in mind that this would be a speedup of just 9% (minus
> loss on the system busses, which are still running on the old clocking) and
> that any overclocking (or other action wich may cause a greater heat on the
> die) reduces the time a cpu may work.
> it is also possible (but unproper in this case) that the cpu freezes (this
> is not a risk when just testing overclocking, because the speed will be
> resetted after a reset/restart)
>
> when you decide to do overclocking you should upgrate your cooling-system.
> you also should be careful and start trying overclocking the cpu by smaller
> steps (~10MHz). searching for forums and archives for reports by people who
> have done overclocking on this machine could also be helpful.
>
> ps: sry in case of a broken thread-id, "reply to list" just didn't work on
> the previous mail

Yeah I was kind of thinking that, the speedup isn't that big and I would be 
really gutted if the machine broke down on me. I like it very much, I just 
wish it was a bit faster.