Overclocking a home server. Good idea??

[MulLa]

I have a P3-700 box at home acting as an FTP / web sharing server which in on basically 24/7.

I have tried running the processor at 933 and it's stable. Not quite sure if it's a good idea to do it to a machine which is on 24/7 tho. If I have sufficient cooling would it be recommended?

Thanx for helping an overclocking newbie.

 

[Mylle]

if it is just doing ftp and web services it will not even matter if its running at 700 or 933. it would be more of an issue how much ram u are using in the system.

mylle

 

[ChipNOW]

Exactly... and as a webserver you want reliability - you're not trying to get top fps's in Q3A... just keep it at stock, or alternitavely, get another 700 and use that current one in your normal system, that's a good o/c

 

[Mindlink]

I agree with ChipNOW. From experience, web/ftp serving is best done with a good raid setup and a slow (~450 MHz) processor that never crashes from overheat/timing problems. It is unlikely that your CPU will reach max load unless you're doing RC5 or SETI on the side while doing web serving or serving up some serious database stuff, especially in a home setting. The real issue here is the hard drive bottleneck, and raid can speed up long up/downloads of large files. If it's only serving word documents and html, any reliable 7200RPM drive will do. Regular (nightly/weelky) defrags depending on OS (Linux, NTFS need it less) also helps keep things nice and smooth, with large files especially, but just in general.

Hope this helps.

 

[mrEvil]

I think we all agree here. You're processor is not going to make any difference between the 700 & 933 setting. 700 => more reliability. Now, if we could only run Windows in a default mode to make it more stable....

 

[paruhd0x]

You don't overclock servers. You overclock gaming systems.