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Overclocking The AMD Duron
JellyBeansOnToastWithStrawberryJamonTop writes: "I noticed in Sharky Extreme and Tom's Hardware coverage of the AMD Duron processor that they both have details on the overclocking capabilities of the processor. Looks like the new Celeron 300A, eh?" It's cool to see that AMD has not locked out overclockers with their new chips. But where are the dual Athlon motherboards, please? Updated 3:19GMT by t: Apropos of overclocking, check out Feedmag's not-uninteresting take on overclocking culture.
Overclocking is not a matter of a dick size contest as such.
its getting your _true_ value for money. sure, i can go and get a AU$2000 cpu, but tell me why i should? when a) they are extremely hard to find, and b) with overclocking, i can get close to, or the same speed as that $2000 chip, for only $400 + 75 for a cooler.
see if you can justify those costs.
also, tell me what is rc5 trying to prove anyway? yes, i am a very mild contender in rc5, but it doesnt exactly hold any scientific value. seti@home for example, is where the consern should be.
since you say overclocking is a "how big my dick is" _contest_, what about rc5? i get nurmorous amounts of people saying quotes like "ive got such and such blocks done, im so leet, ph33r my hardcore skills"
overclocking is a childish pursuite? it maybe to a constricted mind, like yours, but if it wasnt for the remarkability of overclocking, the celeron range would be scarce, dead, or simply not preforming as well. the intel celeron got popular, and made intel money because of overclockers.
As for you knocking peliter coolers, overclocking for these people is a hobby. they are proving a concept to themselves and going beyond whats nessasarily required, needed and so forth. take the 1ghz $2000 cpu for example again. remember ho w my cooler and 600e cpu, costs me a total of 475. Ad a peliter to that, and hold on a second, whats this? only an extra $50. a total of $525 to get the preformance of a chip that costs 4 times as more.
A person wants to by an old car, lets say a classic or fairly moden, etc... and do it up. why dont they just go buy a new car? simply because THEY DONT WANT TO. there is no enjoyment going and buying something that already preforms well, when building something, creating something to be proud of is more valuable, both in price and emotional attachment.
Take hacking (NOT cracking) for example, now why dont people just learn the minimum required? Because they feel as if learning the minimum is stupid. i bet you many people can get by with out learning a programming language, but they learn it because they are intrested in the benefits it holds, and they are expanding thier knowledge.
next time when you oppose something, try to research and examine carefully as to what you want to get across, and what your knocking.
oh, just for the road, another analogy for you. any car can go to the required road limits. why do people buy a car that is more appealing to them, buy a peice of machinary that is somewhat exquisite? take your time to answer, and see if you can realise that people have free will, if they have an ambition to gain a certain status/value and so forth, then they would do so with a strong passion.
if it wasnt for overclocking, i doubt that processor companies would be where they are now, hell even amd overclock their processors for the high end athlon classic range.
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