Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 20:24:16 +0000 From: Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk> To: "Paul C. Boyle" <paulcb_mcse@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do the newbies get hareware freaky. Message-ID: <ZhcyrWBwf9g8Ew5V@caomhin.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200203040005.TAA05635@alpha.vaxxine.com> References: <200203040005.TAA05635@alpha.vaxxine.com>
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In message <200203040005.TAA05635@alpha.vaxxine.com>, Paul C. Boyle
<paulcb_mcse@yahoo.com> writes
>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.
Linux is another popular OS amongst the overclocking crowd. That said
overclockers use anything and everything so...
>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?
I've looked at the raid setup a few times, I think my ideal would
actually be two separate arrays. A mirrored setup for /home and other
stuff I worry about loosing like some configs etc. Then have /usr on a
nice striped array for speed.
Personally I enjoy reading a lot of the overclocking stuff from a
different angle, super-cooling. I've not gone as far as the water-
cooling set-ups or anything but I have bought a few pieces of
overclocking equipment even though my machine runs at it's manufactured
pace. For example I have a wonderful heatsink/fan setup with a throttle
control that lets me run the fan at "silent" speeds without cooking my
CPU. My case has nice airflow and such. My CPU runs at a reasonable
temperature even though the box isn't in the greatest of positions for
cooling. Because I've spent a little more on things like my fans
they're quiet anyway, and the nice case muffles anything actually trying
to make a noise even more.
It's quite interesting what you can do for very little money, last time
I brought things to play with I added 10UKP to the order and bought
myself a cooling kit for my RAM. Hopefully it'll make it last a little
longer, and if not I only spent a couple of pounds on a nice thing to
play with.
Each to their own really. I'm happy with my PCs performance so my goal
is to make it as cool and quiet as possible. I guess if I had money to
burn I'd play with overclocking just to see how far I could push
something, but for now I'll settle with working in the opposite
direction to most people. My machine is quiet, fast and didn't cost me
much. What more could a geek want? :-)
Kevin,
who may install Windows to benchmark it all one day
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kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk
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