[gentoo-user] Re: Overclocking CPU causes segmentation fault

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>]

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:
>>> [...]
>>> 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.