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How the mighty have fallen
Sad to see how few posts a.c.h.o gets these days. I certainly haven't
done my part lately. I haven't even set up my desktop since I moved 18 months ago - and a fairly decent lthree-year-old laptop (T7300/3 GB/ 500 GB/nVidia 8600M GT/1680 x 1050) isn't a lot of overclocking fun (maybe 20% for the display adapter). I see a few familiar names still posting. I'm about to move again and get still another ISP (my present, ATT, has about the worst customer service I've encountered - took nearly four hours on the phone [also ATT] to get my service back after ATT canceled my line because MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR signed up for ATTs Uverse! I spent my computer money for the next couple of iterations on a telescope - it's got lots of processors (eight) and I use it in conjunction with my laptop. An my next computer upgrade will have to fight it out with a deep sky digital astrophotographic camera (about the price of a hot overclocking system.) Perhaps I can squeeze out an interim upgrade (overclocked, of course) to improve image processing - and maybe improve Starcraft II performance B^) Any suggestions for upgrades on a 775 socket nVidia motherboard? At present my desktop/overclocking bench is still an nVidia motherboard with an nVidia 8800 GTS 512 MB and an Intel Duo 1.6 GHz cpu overclocked by 60% running a very high memory bus - if I remember correctly AND it still works B^) I hope a.c.h.o. and its great people are still around when I next upgrade. I think I still have all a.c.h.o. posts back into the '90s - but on the not-yet-set-up desktop. I don't have a Usenet provider at the moment; once I do, I'll go through the painful task of integrating the last 18 months of posts with my archives. |
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How the mighty have fallen
Phil Weldon wrote:
I don't have a Usenet provider at the moment; once I do, I'll go through the painful task of integrating the last 18 months of posts with my archives. news.eternal-september.org is a fine free server for text messages. |
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Somewhere on teh intarwebs Phil Weldon wrote:
Sad to see how few posts a.c.h.o gets these days. I certainly haven't done my part lately. I haven't even set up my desktop since I moved 18 months ago - and a fairly decent lthree-year-old laptop (T7300/3 GB/ 500 GB/nVidia 8600M GT/1680 x 1050) isn't a lot of overclocking fun (maybe 20% for the display adapter). I see a few familiar names still posting. I'm about to move again and get still another ISP (my present, ATT, has about the worst customer service I've encountered - took nearly four hours on the phone [also ATT] to get my service back after ATT canceled my line because MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR signed up for ATTs Uverse! I spent my computer money for the next couple of iterations on a telescope - it's got lots of processors (eight) and I use it in conjunction with my laptop. An my next computer upgrade will have to fight it out with a deep sky digital astrophotographic camera (about the price of a hot overclocking system.) Perhaps I can squeeze out an interim upgrade (overclocked, of course) to improve image processing - and maybe improve Starcraft II performance B^) Any suggestions for upgrades on a 775 socket nVidia motherboard? At present my desktop/overclocking bench is still an nVidia motherboard with an nVidia 8800 GTS 512 MB and an Intel Duo 1.6 GHz cpu overclocked by 60% running a very high memory bus - if I remember correctly AND it still works B^) I hope a.c.h.o. and its great people are still around when I next upgrade. I think I still have all a.c.h.o. posts back into the '90s - but on the not-yet-set-up desktop. I don't have a Usenet provider at the moment; once I do, I'll go through the painful task of integrating the last 18 months of posts with my archives. Hi Phil, Good to see you! I know what you mean, I still subscribe to a.c.h.o but hardly read it. My desktop is remarkably similar to yours but hardly gets turned on now. I use a T60 ThinkPad (T7400 2.13GHz, 4MB L2 C2D CPU, 3GB RAM, 500GB 7,200rpm HDD with a 15" 'FlexView' IPS 1400 x 1050 screen) for my day-to-day computer needs. It's more than adequate, the only game I play regularly is Diablo 2 and that's 10 years old. I think that we've lived through the era where overclocking was needed to get extra performance and now are at the stage where CPUs can do waaaay more than the average Joe would ever require of them. I'll always remember getting my Celeron 600 to run stably at 900. That was my best overclock and was a kick-arse machine for the money. Be well, -- Shaun. "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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How the mighty have fallen
"~misfit~" wrote: I think that we've lived through the era where overclocking was needed to get extra performance and now are at the stage where CPUs can do waaaay more than the average Joe would ever require of them. I'll always remember getting my Celeron 600 to run stably at 900. That was my best overclock and was a kick-arse machine for the money. Be well, -- Shaun. I fondly remember a K6-3+ with 400 MHz stamped on it that ran at 618 MHz with bog standard cooler. I thought overclocking by 50% was something to crow about. Then I read about somebody who claimed they ran a Pentium 4 at 8 GHz. They needed liquid cooling and a modified mainboard - I reckoned that was cheating. |
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Somewhere on teh intarwebs Orson Cart wrote:
"~misfit~" wrote: I think that we've lived through the era where overclocking was needed to get extra performance and now are at the stage where CPUs can do waaaay more than the average Joe would ever require of them. I'll always remember getting my Celeron 600 to run stably at 900. That was my best overclock and was a kick-arse machine for the money. I fondly remember a K6-3+ with 400 MHz stamped on it that ran at 618 MHz with bog standard cooler. I thought overclocking by 50% was something to crow about. Then I read about somebody who claimed they ran a Pentium 4 at 8 GHz. They needed liquid cooling and a modified mainboard - I reckoned that was cheating. I seriously doubt that anyone got a P4 to run at 8 GHz for more than a few seconds, even if they used liquid Nitrogen cooling. I remember watching a Tom's Hardware video of a P4 at 5 GHz using liquid nitrogen and a much-modified motherboard VRM stage and I think that was about the peak. Yeah, I'm with you on the 50% being a good overclock (on air). I almost forgot, my first C2D, an E4500, that was supposed to run at 2.2GHz ran just fine at 3.4GHz with a 6 x 8mm heatpipe cooler (Thermaltake mini-typhoon) with a 90mm fan on it. However it was about then that I realised I was just overclocking for the sake of it. The CPU did everything that I wanted it to do quickly enough at stock speed. Of course there were some fast quads available at the time too. As I saw it that was about the time that O/Cing became a hobby rather than a legitimate need for speed. Hence the comparative silence in this group these days. Phil's subject about says it all. (I dismantled my Tualatin Celeron 1.1 @ 1.46 GHz [133 FSB, stock vcore / HSF] system this week as part of a big clear-out. That was a kick-arse system for it's time too, it'd beat the pants off any P4 under 2 GHz easilly.) -- Shaun. "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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