Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 19:39:09 -0500 From: Marcia Barrett Nice <mimerki@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do the newbies get hareware freaky. Message-ID: <02030319390901.17146@Rozinante> In-Reply-To: <200203040005.TAA05635@alpha.vaxxine.com> References: <200203040005.TAA05635@alpha.vaxxine.com>
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I don't actually overclock my boxen (both Pentium chips, non-overclockable), but my husband and I had a hell of a lot of 'fun' designing and building the watercooling rig he uses on his overclocked Athlon XP 1700Plus. We also swore a lot and got a lot of interesting looks from blokes at the hardware store. Something about having the radiator block from a Chevette that we needed to afix a fan 3-4 inches from was quite humourous. Two of the three main boxen have custom paint jobs: my baby is in metalic blues, his in red & black. The firewall has one of the right cool Lian Li brushed aluminum cases (originally bought for his box, until the water cooling rig outgrew it), and it would probably be a sin to paint it. One of these days I'm going to peel the face plates off the cd-rom and floppy drives on the firewall box and paint them black for an improved coolness factor, but... Both the husband's box and the firewall have RAIDs: his runs data-striping for increased read times, the firewall runs mirroring so I don't have to commit sepuku when the hard drive fails and I don't remember how it was set up. A lot of the overclocker boys we've met run dual-boot boxen: Win9x for games and (typically) Linux 'cause it's k3wl. We have actually just spent the afternoon trying to install Linux on the husband's box, to no avail. It doesn't seem to like his RAID card. (We'd already tried FBSD, and it didn't like the RAID card either.) And personally, after all the people I've seen complain about FBSD's installer, I have to say that I find it vastly preferable to both RedHat and SuSE. Marci On Sunday 03 March 2002 07:06 pm, Paul C. Boyle wrote Do the newbies get hareware freaky.: | I saw on a news program In Toronto a little while back, | about geeks and their tweaked up hardware. | They had overclocked chips, cooling fans every place you can think. | Probably with chrome plating. Their boxes were quite decked out as well. | Some had plexiglass side pannels to see the chrome and brass fans spinning. | They did not mention in the program though as to what os they were running. | I suspect some form of Win9x for game playing. | I have a Plll 850 256M of ram on an Asus slot One board. I cannot | overclock this but I find it to be a very stable piece of hardware. If I | had the money I would go for some sort of scsi raid hard drive controler | with 3 10,000rmp drives. Without parity. The read times would top the | box off quite nice. What do you do and what would you like to do, now that | you run the most efficient operating system this side of Starfleet? | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -- So why, pray, sign anything as long as every word, letter, penstroke, paperspace is a perfect signature of its own? - James Joyce, Finnegans Wake _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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