Anyone Overclocking Servers
 

Simple question answer accordingly.

Who are you?

Who cares

I'm obviously in this particular part of the forum looking to do serious busienss.

No way. I have one that's underclocked. Overclocking means you're trading reliability for CPU and possibly FSB speed. Neither CPU nor FSB is the bottleneck for a server in 99% of cases, so there would be NO benefit to overclocking them. You'd only be losing reliability for no gain.

No :pimp

My home computer has an i5 2500k overclocked to 5.0GHz but no way in hell would I overclock an important server.

I wouldn't overclock a server. If you need more speed you should upgrade to a faster box.

Only motherfuckers overclock their servers.

why? in every context...

That is the dumbest idea ever in the history of our earth
Overclocking a web server

In so many ways

What Ray said!

A little less traditional as a server, but something like one of the new core i7-2700k processors or even the new X ones would give just about the highest performance for least $. Considerations still include chassis heat removal/airflow and not using ECC memory.

Cheers,

Brad

Tawni Stone died when she overclocked her server.

From my experience a 3 ghz chip overclocked to 4ghz is going to be faster than a 4ghz at stock clocks. I was also talking about non server hardware being used too. Wouldn't overclock server hardware.

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