[tech] Overclocking Nautilus

Andrew Williams andrew at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Wed Jun 5 17:13:27 WST 2002


On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 11:49:00 +0800 (WST), proXy wrote:

>In an effort to make OSX run on more hardware. It has occurred to the RME
>that Nautilus (currently 266MHz) could be safely overclocked to
>315MHz. This would allow us to run OSX (10.1) nicely.

Eek, you have to be kidding. An 18% boost in CPU speed would be barely
noticeable - I very much doubt it's CPU bound, more likely memory or
disk bandwidth. Hacking the hardware around and risking frying the CPU
for a barely noticeable gain is just silly. 

Andrew




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