sorry. should have pasted message. was refering to yours. I know what you're saying... I think it's still worth overclocking though, if you're willing to test. 200 mhz extra would be nice. :) Thanks, Tyler Littlefield. Vertigo head coder "My programs don't have bugs, just randomly added features." msn: compgeek134 at hotmail.com email: compgeek13 at gmail.com aim: st8amnd2005 skype: st8amnd127 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 8:00 PM Subject: Re: ot: the best online computer parts store? >I didn't say get THAT processor hehe. > I said don't get a slow one thinking it's easy to make it faster. > It might work, it might not, it will take a lot of your time. > > The truth is that what makes a processor 2.2Gz or 3.3Ghz > is often just testing. They rate them based on how well they > do in tests. You could get lucky and be able to overclock > a lot or you could only get 200Mhz before the OS tries to > write something somehwere that doesn't exist because the > address is corrupted. > > -- Doug > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup