by Dan East » Mar 11, 2003 @ 6:28am
I was going to post this just after this thread was started, but I haven't wanted to spend the effort until now. Anyway, the way any software overclocking utility works is to set a value in some hardware register. As a contrived example, say setting the clock speed register to a value of 5 is 206 mhz, 6 is 221 mhz, 7 is 236 mhz, etc. Okay, now lets say you have 20 copies of some program running, and each one has set that register to 7. So what is the end result? The value is whatever the last instance set it to, which is 7 or 236 mhz in this case. The fact that the overclock util is poorly written and allows multiple instances to run at one time does not mean it can set some ridiculous clock speed.
Dan East
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