On 23/01/13 19:13, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
Am 23.01.2013 09:21, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
On 23/01/13 03:55, Dale wrote:
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I tired overclocking once a good while back. It just wasn't worth it.
I've been running a Core 2 Duo from 2.4Ghz to 3.4Ghz for over three
years. Instead of a new CPU, I only bought a €30 cooler.
Oh, it *was* totally worth it. Mainly for games, where the
performance difference was really dramatic.
yeah and all those files with bit flips (not a problem with films or
pics or mp3s....) you don't know about were totally worth it...
Stability testing is important. If no bit gets flipped after 5 hours of
Prime95, one can be confident that the chip can take it. But I never
noticed anything. At least git would have picked this up (I'm working
on a project with 330k lines of code; a change gets picked up as a
difference.)
But I agree; if I had any hugely important data on my system, I would
not have OCed it. I do not consider game saves, email and porn as
hugely important :-P The source code *is* important, but I said, it's
on a git server and therefore guarded against corruption.
