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