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Re: smooth2o post# 14250

Friday, 09/26/2003 1:57:37 PM

Friday, September 26, 2003 1:57:37 PM

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smooth2o, a better question is why there are still overclockers. Back when CPUs were clocked in double digit MHz, a 25% higher clock rate really made a difference to applications. Also, components were a lot more expensive. The first overclocking involved putting a fan and heat sink on a 486 chip. You could get a 25MHz 486 to run at 50MHz - a 100% increase! (Remember when processors had no fan or heat sink?)

In a way, all processors today are overclocked because these cooling methods were first pioneered by overclockers. Now it's standard. You have to go to expensive and exotic solutions to get what - maybe a 20% clock increase, when most applications don't even need it?
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