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Analog Tachometer PC Mod

Posted by michael on from the when-kde-system-monitor-isn't-enough dept.

greenape147 writes: "BurnOutPC has this review of a tachometer modification for your PC. The tachometer, made and sold by Xoxide, works via the serial port and displays the CPU utilization in RPM's! The classical look of this external tachometer is really nice to see after the "window phase" everyone seems to be going through. Not to mention the fact that analog meters are so fun to watch. Currently supported in Windows NT/2000/XP, a GNU/Linux driver is in the works."

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  1. One small flaw... by Daniel+Rutter · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I have, of course, just attempted to scam one of these to review on my site (most recent pointless case-mod widget review on Dan's Data: this one), but I can't help but think that there's a basic flaw in the idea.

    Namely - aren't most modders and overclockers running the distributed.net client, or some similar background task, which keeps our CPU utilisation at 100% all the time?

    I could draw a tachometer on the front of this PC, and it'd be 100% accurate :-).