Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:23:54 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: AMD Quad Core clock problem? |
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Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:35:38PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> "Any machine with spread spectrum clocking" is a pretty outrageous >> claim, since that includes just about 100% of all machines built today >> -- it's virtually impossible getting RFI certification without it. > > True, but usually they give you an option to turn it off in the BIOS to > make the system actually work with things like NTP. > > Maybe I should have said "Any system with spread spectrum enabled". >
That, too, is clearly unrealistic, or NTP would be useless except on dedicated systems.
-hpa
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