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OK, for the system in my sig, the dual Opteron one:
I have tried to mildly OC it, I don't think that I should go too far for several reasons:
1) I need this system 100 percent stable at all times, it's mostly for linguistic computations.
2) Although the board supports OC to a certain extent, the fail safe BIOS feature of the K8N-DL often reverts the settings to default, if the OC becomes too aggressive.
3) I have the Sledgehammer core Opterons, although they are no slouch, they certainly don't OC the same way as the Denmark core 1XX opterons on S939.
OK, so here are my options:
The max OC with 4X HTT on the board (rigorously tested to be 100% stable) is measly 2.05, or 50 MHz of OC, with the HTT running 820mhz.
The max OC with 3X HTT on the board (also rigorously tested ) is 2.15 GHz, or 150 MHz of OC, with the HTT running now at 645 MHz.
My question is, for most applications in Linux, which would result in an overall faster machine. Would the lower HTT on the 3X significantly drag down the performance of the whole system? I mostly run programs which are very data and memory intensive, hence the large amount of RAM. As far as I know HTT should not affect memory intensive programs, right? Or is there something I'm missing?
I have tried to mildly OC it, I don't think that I should go too far for several reasons:
1) I need this system 100 percent stable at all times, it's mostly for linguistic computations.
2) Although the board supports OC to a certain extent, the fail safe BIOS feature of the K8N-DL often reverts the settings to default, if the OC becomes too aggressive.
3) I have the Sledgehammer core Opterons, although they are no slouch, they certainly don't OC the same way as the Denmark core 1XX opterons on S939.
OK, so here are my options:
The max OC with 4X HTT on the board (rigorously tested to be 100% stable) is measly 2.05, or 50 MHz of OC, with the HTT running 820mhz.
The max OC with 3X HTT on the board (also rigorously tested ) is 2.15 GHz, or 150 MHz of OC, with the HTT running now at 645 MHz.
My question is, for most applications in Linux, which would result in an overall faster machine. Would the lower HTT on the 3X significantly drag down the performance of the whole system? I mostly run programs which are very data and memory intensive, hence the large amount of RAM. As far as I know HTT should not affect memory intensive programs, right? Or is there something I'm missing?
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