On Mon, 2024-08-19 at 22:02 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The overclocking options start at 5400, so I don't think that's it. The > DRAM spec is 5200 and I now have it working at that frequency. Makes me wonder if the automatic selection is based on some unmentioned criteria (*lowest* common denominator instead of highest, most stable workbench testing, temperature ranges, power optimisation, automatic on-demand speed changes, etc). I was talking with a friend about PC building, and he now prefers to have someone else build for him. His thinking is that they'll know how to set BIOS settings, take anti-static precautions, etc. But I'm fairly certain the average shop knows as much about settings as we do when we research things on the internet. I have no faith in shops taking anti-static precautions. And when it comes to Windows and gaming, people try pushing things to the limit (and beyond), thinking an extra 0.2% speed will actually make a tangible difference. What it's most likely to do is affect stability. And you need a much greater speed increase for you to notice anything. I just go with the automatic options, in general. Very few of the options are adequately explained anywhere, and very few component specifications are listed beyond the basic speed parameter. About the only options I adjust are quiet fan settings, switching off unnecessary hardware like floppies and parallel ports (though that's no guarantee that they are disabled to the system probing hardware to load drivers), and set boot priorities. i.e. Things where what you can control are immediately obvious. I have come across broken BIOSes before, where setting some innocuous parameter (like boot floppy before CD-ROM before HDD, instead of CD-ROM before floppy before HDD), caused it to crash and overwrite some other settings. So tweaking is fraught with unpredictability. The motto is: The universe is against you, you cannot win. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
