>I don't think anyone really overclocked to improve >performance. In any case, the performance >improvement from overclocking is negligible for >home users.
I beg to differ. In some situations, an overclocked machine and extra cooling hardware will cost much, much less then an equally performing "stock" machine. Case in point... lets go back to the year 2000, an Abit BP6 main board and 2 celeron 366 PPGA processors, two Global Win heat sinks and a little thinking would get you up to a dual 550 with 100Mhz front side bus. Note, this happend when the highest clocked chip intel was selling was around the 700Mhz range. I built one of these machines, snagging the chips for a measly 40 bucks a piece. I saved a ton of money, and got one of the best performing workstations of the day.
Grrrrr. When will people get over this myth. The McDonalds coffee suit was a completely valid suit. McDonalds was serving coffee at 180 degree F. Which caused THIRD DEGREE burns on this women. You go get third degree burns on your dick because of some companies greed and tell me you don't think you need compensation. Go read the facts, quit spouting off at the mouth. God I hate people.
http://www.vanfirm.com/mcdonalds-coffee-lawsuit. ht m
The result of the suit was McDonalds lowering the temperature of their coffee to reasonable levels ( on par with all other major restaurants ) Which is IMHO a very important part of any law suit. To change the world for the better. Unlike this law suit, which IMHO is retarded, maybe if the pop up put his eye out or something.. but no.
Here's where we say "life's not fair" if you gamble for anything more then entertainment with a small amount of money... 1.) you are a moron. 2.) you need to take more classes on number theory.... If you go to a casino and start winning (at any game) they will just throw you out and you will never be allowed back. Black Jack is probably the only game you could ever tip the odds and win at, granted, but if you happen to get really, really, really lucky at roulette and say, win 4 times in a row for the tune of over 10k or so. I can guarentee they be escorting you out quickly. It doesn't matter if they have "proof" you cheated, all that matters is that you won. Casino's are private organzations and will continue not allowing anyone who can win in the door any way they see fit. So stop gambling you god damn morons.
-Spinoza
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Ever heard of "Florinert" (TM from 3M corp) It's the chemical used to cool Crays. It a completely electricly inert liquid. It's also nearly perfectly chemically inert as well. New it runs at about 500 bucks a gallon. I found 2 gallons back in the year 2000 but my apartment burned down that year and poof.. no more florinert. I was going to create a lexane case and run the machine under florinert. Oh well, maybe I'll find some more.
I see that Sony is absent from the list of members. One wonders whether they will ever use an industry standard storage in any of their products *cough* Compact Flash *cough*. It's almost ironic though, because they make massivly overpriced digital camaras that take standard computer media, floppies and CD-Rs. I'll like to beat a few sony execs will some memory sticks.
"And I know this isn't a nose, but the nose being non-important might be a clue to not spend 3.2 million dollars."
That is the most absurd premise I've ever read. Please do us all a favor and never sit on any board that decides where money is spent in research. Your mistake here is that you have related the importance of a human ability, to a nearly unrelated research field of air-born partical analysis. Using your logic, anything that humans don't do particularly well shouldn't be researched, because it must not be important. Do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds? Humans aren't particularly good at non-symbolic mathmatics. (Most aren't good at any Math) So that means it must not be important, and machines that can do this task (Computers) shouldn't researched. Isn't the point of technology to create entities that go beyond our tiny little human abilities.
You sound just like me... I build a dual 366@550 BP6 machine about then. I believe the chips were 40 dollars a piece then. It's the first computer I ever built that increased in value after the months I bought it. This was the begining of my junior year of college. I think you might have the year wrong, should be the fall of 2000.. Any way... My apartment burned down that following May, killing my BP6. Very sad. (Not to mention I had 2 gallons of florinert in that apartment also) So my next machine was a dual Athlon, built in the summer of 2001. I started with 1.2Ghz MP chips and 512MB of RAM... and then after an NMB power supply explosion, I raised the bar to 1800(1.53Ghz)XP models, and 1Gig of RAM. I liquid cooled the chips. The whole system is in a Lian li aluminun case. If you want any tips or suggestions on the dual athlon build, just throw me a note.
Once you go Dual you never go back. I can encode mpeg 4 faster then real time. I have an ATI AIW card and my computer in a Divx base Video Recording box.
You are not alone my friend. I don't have a separate entertainment system besides my computer-based one. It has all the hardware I need in it. Surround sound, DVD and CD players, Higher Definition screen then HDTV... Why on earth would I pay thousands for a whole separate system with the exact same circuit boards and chips? I don't need to pay those corporations twice, and I certainly don't need to give the music industry money to further reduce my freedoms. Down with the DMCA... I'll see it all the way through... Need an expert to sit in the chair.. Drop me a note.. I'm feed up with this nonsense.
I recently did a project involving the Sunray Appliance. The college I recently graduated from uses them almost exclusively for the CS labs. We have a large 8 way V880 sun server that runs all the Sunrays. Administration is very simple, this is important because the school won't hire anyone to do it, so the professors need to spend as little time as possible bothering with it.
The sunrays can best be explained as a cat 5 connected video card. All the work is done with UDP packets, lots of them. There are commands to fill an area with a color, set an area with a specific bitmap or pixmap, and to copy a certain area to another location on the screen. The protocol is called SLIM and will be opened soon as all Sun protocols usually are. If this sounds like VNC designed for a high bandwidth low latency network, it's because it is.
You don't need the smart cards to log in to the things. We have them set up with a normal dt login. The cards are fun though. And any "java smart card" can be used... Providian VISA anyone!
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>I don't think anyone really overclocked to improve
>performance. In any case, the performance
>improvement from overclocking is negligible for
>home users.
I beg to differ. In some situations, an overclocked machine and extra cooling hardware will cost much, much less then an equally performing "stock" machine. Case in point... lets go back to the year 2000, an Abit BP6 main board and 2 celeron 366 PPGA processors, two Global Win heat sinks and a little thinking would get you up to a dual 550 with 100Mhz front side bus. Note, this happend when the highest clocked chip intel was selling was around the 700Mhz range. I built one of these machines, snagging the chips for a measly 40 bucks a piece. I saved a ton of money, and got one of the best performing workstations of the day.
Grrrrr. When will people get over this myth. The McDonalds coffee suit was a completely valid suit. McDonalds was serving coffee at 180 degree F. Which caused THIRD DEGREE burns on this women. You go get third degree burns on your dick because of some companies greed and tell me you don't think you need compensation. Go read the facts, quit spouting off at the mouth. God I hate people.
. ht m
http://www.vanfirm.com/mcdonalds-coffee-lawsuit
The result of the suit was McDonalds lowering the temperature of their coffee to reasonable levels ( on par with all other major restaurants ) Which is IMHO a very important part of any law suit. To change the world for the better. Unlike this law suit, which IMHO is retarded, maybe if the pop up put his eye out or something.. but no.
Here's where we say "life's not fair" if you gamble for anything more then entertainment with a small amount of money... 1.) you are a moron. 2.) you need to take more classes on number theory.... If you go to a casino and start winning (at any game) they will just throw you out and you will never be allowed back. Black Jack is probably the only game you could ever tip the odds and win at, granted, but if you happen to get really, really, really lucky at roulette and say, win 4 times in a row for the tune of over 10k or so. I can guarentee they be escorting you out quickly. It doesn't matter if they have "proof" you cheated, all that matters is that you won. Casino's are private organzations and will continue not allowing anyone who can win in the door any way they see fit. So stop gambling you god damn morons.
-Spinoza
Ever heard of "Florinert" (TM from 3M corp) It's the chemical used to cool Crays. It a completely electricly inert liquid. It's also nearly perfectly chemically inert as well. New it runs at about 500 bucks a gallon. I found 2 gallons back in the year 2000 but my apartment burned down that year and poof.. no more florinert. I was going to create a lexane case and run the machine under florinert. Oh well, maybe I'll find some more.
I see that Sony is absent from the list of members. One wonders whether they will ever use an industry standard storage in any of their products *cough* Compact Flash *cough*. It's almost ironic though, because they make massivly overpriced digital camaras that take standard computer media, floppies and CD-Rs. I'll like to beat a few sony execs will some memory sticks.
"And I know this isn't a nose, but the nose being non-important might be a clue to not spend 3.2 million dollars."
That is the most absurd premise I've ever read. Please do us all a favor and never sit on any board that decides where money is spent in research. Your mistake here is that you have related the importance of a human ability, to a nearly unrelated research field of air-born partical analysis. Using your logic, anything that humans don't do particularly well shouldn't be researched, because it must not be important. Do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds? Humans aren't particularly good at non-symbolic mathmatics. (Most aren't good at any Math) So that means it must not be important, and machines that can do this task (Computers) shouldn't researched. Isn't the point of technology to create entities that go beyond our tiny little human abilities.
Please, think before thou type.
-Spinoza
You sound just like me... I build a dual 366@550 BP6 machine about then. I believe the chips were 40 dollars a piece then. It's the first computer I ever built that increased in value after the months I bought it. This was the begining of my junior year of college. I think you might have the year wrong, should be the fall of 2000.. Any way... My apartment burned down that following May, killing my BP6. Very sad. (Not to mention I had 2 gallons of florinert in that apartment also) So my next machine was a dual Athlon, built in the summer of 2001. I started with 1.2Ghz MP chips and 512MB of RAM... and then after an NMB power supply explosion, I raised the bar to 1800(1.53Ghz)XP models, and 1Gig of RAM. I liquid cooled the chips. The whole system is in a Lian li aluminun case. If you want any tips or suggestions on the dual athlon build, just throw me a note.
Once you go Dual you never go back. I can encode mpeg 4 faster then real time. I have an ATI AIW card and my computer in a Divx base Video Recording box.
You are not alone my friend. I don't have a separate entertainment system besides my computer-based one. It has all the hardware I need in it. Surround sound, DVD and CD players, Higher Definition screen then HDTV... Why on earth would I pay thousands for a whole separate system with the exact same circuit boards and chips? I don't need to pay those corporations twice, and I certainly don't need to give the music industry money to further reduce my freedoms. Down with the DMCA... I'll see it all the way through... Need an expert to sit in the chair.. Drop me a note.. I'm feed up with this nonsense.
Maybe he has a Dell or Microsoft natural keyboard. Mine puts tick marks in at random spots when I'm typing.
I recently did a project involving the Sunray Appliance. The college I recently graduated from uses them almost exclusively for the CS labs. We have a large 8 way V880 sun server that runs all the Sunrays. Administration is very simple, this is important because the school won't hire anyone to do it, so the professors need to spend as little time as possible bothering with it.
The sunrays can best be explained as a cat 5 connected video card. All the work is done with UDP packets, lots of them. There are commands to fill an area with a color, set an area with a specific bitmap or pixmap, and to copy a certain area to another location on the screen. The protocol is called SLIM and will be opened soon as all Sun protocols usually are. If this sounds like VNC designed for a high bandwidth low latency network, it's because it is.
You don't need the smart cards to log in to the things. We have them set up with a normal dt login. The cards are fun though. And any "java smart card" can be used... Providian VISA anyone!