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RE: Does Mathematica work reliably in an Overclocked system

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  • Subject: [mg19900] RE: [mg19859] Does Mathematica work reliably in an Overclocked system
  • From: Wong William <WWong at submarinesystems.com>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 20:42:24 -0400
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I have a dual celeron (overclocked) 550 MHz system at home running
Windows 2000 beta 3.  To make sure that things are OK, I'd
run two copies of Prime95 for days.  I heard that even Intel
uses something similar to Prime95 to test their own CPUs.

William S. Wong, Ph.D.
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Tyco Submarine Systems Laboratories 

> Is it possible that when you run mathematica in an 
> overclocked system, it
> will give you an incorrect results without you even knowing it ?
> Is there any way that I can do to prevent it from happening and still
> overclock the CPU ?
> System: PIII450 at 600, Abit BX6 R2 motherboard, 256 MB RAM.
> 
> 


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