jcl Posted April 13, 2005 Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 (edited) Interesting post from Raymond Chen's blog about surreptitious overclocking and the (in)stability of Windows. Chen's on the Windows dev team at MS.A bunch of us were going through some Windows crashes that people sent in by clicking the "Send Error Report" button in the crash dialog. And there were huge numbers of them that made no sense whatsoever. [...]He sent email to some Intel people he knew to see if they could think of anything. They said that the only thing they could think of was that perhaps somebody had mis-paired RAM on their motherboard, but their description of what sorts of things go wrong when you mis-pair didn't match this scenario.Since the failure rate for this particular error was comparatively high (certainly higher than the one or two I was getting for the failures I was looking at), he requested that the next ten people to encounter this error be given the opportunity to leave their email address and telephone number so that he could call them and ask follow-up questions. Some time later, he got word that ten people took him up on this offer, and he sent each of them e-mail asking them various questions about their hardware configurations, including whether they were overclocking.Five people responded saying, "Oh, yes, I'm overclocking. Is that a problem?"The other half said, "What's overclocking?" He called them and walked them through some configuration information and was able to conclude that they were indeed all overclocked. But these people were not overclocking on purpose. The computer was already overclocked when they bought it. These "stealth overclocked" computers came from small, independent "Bob's Computer Store"-type shops, not from one of the major computer manufacturers or retailers.For both groups, he suggested that they stop overclocking or at least not overclock as aggressively. And in all cases, the people reported that their computer that used to crash regularly now runs smoothly.Moral of the story: There's a lot of overclocking out there, and it makes Windows look bad. Edited April 13, 2005 by jcl Quote Link to post Share on other sites
macmarauder Posted April 13, 2005 Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 yeah unfortunately it's been going on for a long time. sadly most people don't even know that they got less than what they paid for. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 (edited) I can overclock my 2.0 celeron to 3.5 ghz and linux runs it great. Windows sucks.I felt like being obnoxious ;-) Edited May 3, 2007 by shanenin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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