On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:42:09 -0400, noname wrote:
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:14:31 GMT, (John Lewis)
wrote:
I give up what is a "longer-term early-failure"??
That would imply that you would reach the parts Mean Time Before
Failure, but still might have a servicable life.
Might be an acceptable risk for a gamer... Just as an example using
random numbers:
Suppose the part has a MTBF of 10,000 hours.
A gamer wants some extra speed, knows he's not going to use that CPU
for more than a couple years and overclocks it, lessening the CPU's
life to 7000 hours. That would be a longer term early failure.
Tim