Stephen <mcavoys_at@aoldotcom> wrote:
> Now that I know that the adjustment lever has the range, I will be 
> scientific. So I recorded the tick on my tablet (1 GHz CPU) and analysed 
> it. I also recorded a quartz watch as a reference. Damned if the wave 
> form was > 0.6% out. That is nearly 9 minutes out in a day.

  It actually doesn't surprise me that CPU clocks aren't adjusted to
extreme accuracy because they don't need to. It's not like they have to
precisely sync with anything. This especially so because most modern CPUs
support throttling. (In fact, an error 0.6% sounds pretty small to me.)

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                                                          - Warp

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