The Buzz Community Group
Really? I hadn't heard a thing about it !
Yes, I have an Inner Nerd within me! :-)
I resurrected a PC I built back in 2006 and it's now dedicated to SETI@HOME.
I pulled the MB tray, took all the components off, cleaned it off with a fine brush and can of dust off, re-assembled it, juiced it (OC'd CPU from 2.13 GHz to 3.29 GHz and RAM from 800 MHz to 940 MHz), benched it for stability and thermal tolerance and it's good to go!
I might update the video card because SETI@HOME also uses the GPU for its work units.
I resurrected a PC I built back in 2006 and it's now dedicated to SETI@HOME.
I pulled the MB tray, took all the components off, cleaned it off with a fine brush and can of dust off, re-assembled it, juiced it (OC'd CPU from 2.13 GHz to 3.29 GHz and RAM from 800 MHz to 940 MHz), benched it for stability and thermal tolerance and it's good to go!
I might update the video card because SETI@HOME also uses the GPU for its work units.
Me personally I like to underclock things, to give better life expectancy to components and better thermal efficiency.
Sheesh, I can remember when front side bus was under 100mghz. WOW things have changed.
What is Seti@home? is that one of the "loaning CPU cycle" programs for curing cancer or mapping outer space or something?
I'm running an Intel C2D E6400 on an ASUS P5B Deluxe. Stock the CPU runs at an FSB frequency of 266 MHz and a multiplier of 8 for 2.13 GHz. I stepped the multiplier down to 7 and upped the FSB to 470, so my DDR2 RAM is running at 940 MHz. It's 800 MHz G.Skill with Micron D9 chips and I have the timings tight (4-4-4-10). More bandwidth. :-)
Running Prime95 torture test Small FFTs the temps for both cores barely breaks 50C and the Northbridge sits at 32C. I've got a big Thermalright SI128 heatsink with a whopping YS 120mm x 38mm fan that puts out something like 135 CFM. I've also got lots of good case airflow and a small fan mounted on the Northbridge and a Corsair fan cooler on my RAM.
I could run things faster (7x533 for 3.73 GHz), but I want to keep the voltages reasonable. It's not only the heat but excessive electromigration if I jack up the voltages too high. Both the C2D E6300 and E6400 are grate overlockers, and the ASUS P5B Deluxe is a great LGA775 Socket board. G.Skill also makes some really great RAM.
That one is running stock speeds and handles what I need to do and I just can't justify upgrading to a newer setup yet.
thats hawt
:)
My main computer is a quad core. Just one of those paperback book sized mini boxes with only 2g of ram. It can bog down, but that is mostly because of the beta version of the hardware acceleration drivers for this particular no-name chipset.
Think it is a zotec z-box, running Ubuntu on a 60gig SSD. Pretty much bulletproof.
Next box I build will be an I7 Quad Core and I'll probably install Windows 7 Pro 64 bit.
The ASUS P5B Deluxe in my OC'd build runs on the P965 chipset and my stock box has a ASUS P5Q Pro has the P45 chipset chipset. What I like the best is the BIOS. Let's me control just about anything if I so desire. I do on my one rig, but my other rig is all default/stock settings.
any time theres passion and excitement in people, whether i understand it or not, i'm jazzed :)
carry on
seriously
Micro$oft. Just don't do it man, just don't do it!
Here in my workplace "proprietary" is a naughty word.
I'm in the process of DL'ing ubuntu. That's my project for tonight and tomorrow. Gonna try that flavor of Linux and see how I like it. Frankly the Unity GUI looks okay, and the current LTS version (12.04) is being supported for 5 years, not the normal 3 years, through 2017. Ad the AMD driver for linux does support OpenCL, so my GPU should support SETI@HOME GPU processing.
Cool!
Now I just have to figure out how everything works...
Sorry sorry. Line from the TV show, the office.