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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 05:31:13PM +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > Max Siegieda wrote: > > The only problem then comes with overclocking, not a concern of the > > average user, however AMD chips are known to overclock abysmally, > > gaining maybe 200-500mhz on stock speeds. Intel CPUs are known to > > overclock like stink. Whether this applies to the AMD CPUs in question > > I do not know, that's a simple job of finding reviews. > But most people are happy with what they have. Sure I have my Pentium > Dual Core overclocked but it's running Windows. When I overclocked it > under Ubuntu it would default back to the usual speed (I had the same on > my Phenom X4). I hear the Phenom II is a good overclocker but out of > most of the people I know they're happy with stock speeds. Most of my machines tend to run underclocked most of the time, to be honest, and when they’re running at full speed that’s generally fast enough even when doing a lot of compiling or encoding. -- Benjamin M. A’Lee || mail: bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://bma.subvert.org.uk/ || gpg: 0x166891C7
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