Processor speed

[Mike Garfias]

Overclocking isn't bad - intel and AMD do it all the time.  When you  
see a higher speed proc rated with a higher voltage (say 1.7v vs  
1.5v) - thats been overclocked and they had to up the voltage to make  
the proc run stable at that speed.

I have no idea what kind of system you're running, but in my  
experience the best way to enhance response time is to drop in a  
faster (rotationally) disk.  The 5-10ms you save accessing a new file  
makes a noticeable difference.


On Nov 29, 2006, at 7:32 AM, Michael Havens wrote:

> I know overclocking the processor is bad but I was thinking that it  
> might
> be underclocked. How do I see this?
>
> You know.... I was watching top run and it says that opera use 16ish 
> % and
> Xorg use 10is% of the processor. Then there are 5ish processes  
> which total
> less the 10% of the processor
> everything below that says 0.0% of the processor so I don't think  my
> processor is at fault for it ...... but when I start some applications
> things are slugish. Perhaps I should overclock the processor since I
> rarely start those pss and things would start quicker thereby  
> reducing the
> use of the processor. What do you think about this idea?
> --
> :~)MIKE(~:
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