[plug] Overclocking a CPU

[Craig Ringer]

l anderson wrote:
> Howdy,
> Did everyone have an enjoyable XMAS/New Year.
> 
> What needs to be carried out to overclock the CPU on an HP Vectra VE, CPU's
> present speed is set at 233Mhz which is I believe the standard setting.
> How far can we push the speed without overclocking to far.
> This will be my first attempt at overclocking.

With guaranteed safety? 0% .

Beyond that, it depends on the "headroom" of the CPUs, ie how much 
faster those particular chips can run than their labelled rating, and on 
how well cooled they are. If you care about reliability or not frying 
your hardware, don't overlock.

> I also wish to add a second hdd as the original is very small.
> Adding a second disk is in it self simple enough The jumper settings
> should be ?????.

Well, if the existing disk is jumpered master, the new one must be 
jumpered slave. However, if the second disk is a lot larger, consider 
getting rid of the old disk entirely and just use the new one jumpered 
master. Old small disk == slow and more likely to fail disk . Remember 
that disk I/O speed (and amount of available RAM) is much more crucial 
to performance in many tasks than CPU speed.

These questions could all have been answered easily with a little 
research (google, various forums, etc), and are really pure hardware 
questions that're nothing to do with PLUG.

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Craig Ringer