Kyle McDonald wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote:
> > I don't overclock anything. I want bulletproof.
I lied. I have a TX chipset (max 66 Mhz bus) Socket 7 (ATX) running at
83, which means the PCI bus is running 41.5. I have a similar one from
the same manufacturer with the same TX chipset that won't POST above 66
(AT). But, the overclocked one doesn't get used a whole lot except as a
guinea pig.
> I'd like to hear your definition of bulletproof. I don't think
> you can get bulletproof in any variation of todays PC architecture.
> But it doesn't sound like you want to spend the money for bulletproof.
Bulletproof means you wear your flak jacket instead of leaving it in the
closet. It means running a 1000 MHz rated CPU at no higher than 1000
MHz, 133 MHz rated memory at no higher than 133 MHz. Difficult to cope
with problems crop up often enough without inviting them violating speed
limits.
> I spent alot of time reading it too. And I still don't understand
> where you get the 'handicapped' from. There doesn't seem to be any
> evidence that there are any bugs or design flaws in the gates of the
> ASICS. There only seems to be bugs in how the software drivers
> initialize the registers. The patches all seem to fix the problem
> easy enough. Calling this a 'handicap' is like those who call the
> VIA 4 in 1 drivers 'Patches for windows'
You need windoze to apply the patches. Contrary to popular opinion, not
every machine that runs something besides windoze multiboots the
something else with windoze. The machine I'm writing this from has never
ever booted any version of any M$ operating system.
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