On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:43:32 -0400, "Phil Weldon"
wrote:

'Augustus' wrote:
And this was X-posted to the Nvidia and ATI videocard group for what
reason? Because PC's have vieocards in them?
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Because the original poster didn't dare post in overclocking newsgroups
where the contents would be evaluated. For example why boost VTT in the
first place? After all, the stated CPU Clock rate is only 453 MHz, just a
53 MHz / 400 MHz = 13% boost above the stock clock for the Intel X48 1600
MHz specified FSB (plenty of Intel chipset motherboards NOT specified for
1600 MHz FSB operation will operate at that speed without VTT boosts.) And
the sample is quantity one for the original post. And the original post is
both unsigned AND in a forum. And the added comments by the original poster
for this thread have even less provenance.

Phil Weldon


The misfortune happened at Anandtech in extreme stress testing..
Probably the most respected PC hardware review site in the world for
its technical authority. Er, Gary Key, the author of the article is
one of their top reviewers. And he posted the warning as a practical
instance of what can happen if you play with voltages in excess of
manufacturer rating, as many other have found out recently when
overvolting memory. Why not read the full blog and Gary's implied
intentions before jumping in with both feet.

Oh, btw. I do have quite a bit of stress/QC experience over quite a
few years with standard digital silicon processes. It takes quite some
time to fully establish the failure corners. Regardless of Intel's
best efforts, I suspect there is quite a bit of learning still be to
done even by Intel in that direction on hafnium-gate silicon.


"Augustus" wrote in message

And this was X-posted to the Nvidia and ATI videocard group for what
reason? Because PC's have vieocards in them?

Nope.

Because those that read those specific newsgroups are likely be more
than casual PC users and highly likely to be in the
build-it-and-tweak-it-yourself PC community. I thought it easier to
reach more PC tweakers that way than try posting to a myriad of
motherboard newsgroups besides Asus.

You do leap to the wrong conclusions rather fast, don't you? Been
very long in these newsgroups or are you just a passing newbie?

John Lewis