From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Mar 4 12:25:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77E0F37B400 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 12:25:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from caomhin.demon.co.uk ([212.228.234.119]) by anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16hz1R-00048f-0W; Mon, 04 Mar 2002 20:25:25 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 20:24:16 +0000 To: "Paul C. Boyle" Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org From: Kevin Golding Subject: Re: Do the newbies get hareware freaky. References: <200203040005.TAA05635@alpha.vaxxine.com> In-Reply-To: <200203040005.TAA05635@alpha.vaxxine.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <200203040005.TAA05635@alpha.vaxxine.com>, Paul C. Boyle 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 -- kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message