On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Sean Breheny wrote: > While I agree that moderate overclocking is probably not going to > cause quick death of the CPU, I would think that the bigger problem is > reliability - there will be some range of frequencies where the > processor works most of the time but will sometimes hang, sometimes > just begin behaving erratically, etc. I would think that it would be > difficult to determine a very reliable operating point yourself. Most over-clockers are gamers looking for maximum frame rates, and the ocasional glitch/crash of a game is often an acceptable trade-off for increased frame rate. Personally, when I care about the results of my CPUs calculations, I'd prefer to have as much headroom as possible. -p. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .