>> Henri Smulders <bwidget@atlanta.com> wrote: Don't get a Pentiu, 120; get a 75 and clock it up to 150 (or at least 100; 150 is very
>>only succeeded once reliably; but I always try ;-)). I have clocked up p5-75 all the way to 150 without problems(That ONE was exceptional though!) . I'm currently running off of a P5-75 running RELIABLY at 100
>Mhz.
>> Then of course, there were a couple cases of clocking a p75 to p100+
>> and getting unfrotunate results:) Lesse, one melted through his case,
>> singing the rug (And making quite a mess of liquid transistors) and
>> one just internally fused and died :) But hey, it's worth the speed,
>> right? ;)
>> Matt
> I don't know who told you that story; but it is bull! The way Intel processes it's chips is by first
>testing them at the highest clock-rates. If the chip proves to work reliably it goes on the 166 (or is it
>180 now?) heap if it doesmn't it gets tested at a lower speed. So Upclocking does just what Intel itself
>does. Their yields are currently such that more than 90% of the recent chips run reliably at 120 Mhz. This
>means that a current 75 chip has a more than 90% chance of being up-clocked. When a chip does not run
>reliably at higher clock-speeds you just get a machine that crashes randomly. I've gotten Doo-Doo on my
>harddisks because of the crashes; However it never physically damaged any computer part of mine. I am not
>rich enough to screw around with stuff that could damage my PC; That would not be worth the speed. Since it
>is not a money question; but more of a hassle question it is worth it.
Yeah I know how they get made. I just read the overclocking survey
somebody did. Had results from like 100 people. Most worked, only two
had "irreversable" damage that included melting and general death :)
