If done properly it's gonna be stable, most processors are sold at lower specs to meet market demands.
I've done my 486 (66@80), my AMD 486 (133@160), P166MMX@200, K6-2 266@338, Cel300a@450, Dual Cel300a@450, Athlon XP-m 2500+ @ 3200+ speeds. That one is capable of reaching 2.5Ghz, but not without upping the voltage, thus running at 2.2 stock voltage. Athlon X2 4200+ @ 2.4, P4s have been done, even my Powermac. I never went over 10% over voltage specs, and never tried to reach twice the speeds. If done in a sensible way, Overclocking was a way to boost performance, but I agree that nowadays it's a moot point since even the walmart junk is plenty enough for almost everybody.
OC means running a 150$ CPU at the same specs Intel would like you to pay 800$ for. But yes, for the average user, any modern PC will be fast enough, even the wallmart junk.
It probably needs a recap. I had to replace the caps on a Dell Optiplex 280 (wouldn't boot). Now runs flawlessly at a friend's place. cost me about 5$ in capacitors.
Many things today go bad because of either bad caps (Viewsonic VA1912, RCA AV Receiver, that Dell, One of my previous machines, or bad solder joints (thank you lead-free solder, just revived an old 52" RPTV just by resoldering the flyback. Found it on christmas eve, was thrown away because it totally lost its convergence)
I've found some during a major cleanup of my *outside* storage locker. (exposed to winter conditions, high humidity and hot temperatures for the last 12 years). *NONE* of them were deteriorated. I have pictures here (from my great-grandmother) that are still fine, and those are much older than 50 years.
OTOH, my 15 year old undevelloped films won't probably be as lucky (those were inside though)
Since ReactOS is clean room reverse engineered, MS wouldn't be able to do squat. Love the irony, since Compaq's reverse engineering of IBM's BIOS launched the clones era...
Probably, but I've read something about using 1.2MB floppies with old drives, something about not enough coercivity to retain data for long times. But since a lot of my floppies were notched to make them double-side without any problems whatsoever (even after 30 years), It's probably a moot point
Nope, as bre_dnd said, a 5x86 running at 4*40. (epoxied heatsink only, no fan). My board can do *6, I wonder if it could hit 200Mhz with active cooling:;
Working, an old C64 (original, still working with modifications made circa 1988) with Amiga monitor, 2 1541 hooked up. (similar setup on my TV)
There's a 160 Mhz 486 (5x86 all ISA & VLB, no PCI) with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite soundcard running under DOS 6.22/Win 3.11 . Right next to it a 800Mhz PIII with 98SE. Powermac G4 400Mhz with OS9 / Leopard. (those are using a CRT)
There's a 2Ghz G5 iMac hooked up to my home theater (iTunes), my Media Center (XP MCE) and the *newest* machine, a Core2 duo (Win 7 x64 about to go back to x86).
What's saddening is the older stuff works as it is, but I had to recap the iMac, the Media Center, my AV receiver (2003) needed a new relay and caps on the Core2 are starting to bulge (that one is probably 2006)
That's exactly how Bell thinks (Canada). Payphones are less and less used, and they're trying to *raise* the fees to 1$ (double of what it already is).
Judging by the state of our military hardware the rockets will either fall apart after launch, blow up on the launchpad or lose some parts and fall on a big city.
and driving like you're owning the road. And don't use your flashers, I really hate it when people signal their intentions. And of course, please honk after 2ms at the green light.
And I can't have enough of your crappy sound system when you're parked right in front of my house
Gotta love how they handled those changes (either hardware or software architecture) so the transition would be almost transparent to users...
6502 to 68k via an add-on board (basically a 6502 on an expansion card to give full 2e compatibility), that one was both a hardware and software transition so a Mac could run Apple 2 apps.
When they switched from 68k to PPC during 7.x or 8 they used emulation again so apps would run on the new architecture, then Classic mode (emulation) when they switched from OS9 to OSX on PPC, then again PPC to x86 via emulation in OSX, everything always going smoothly and transparent for users. So going from x86 to ARM shouldn't be that hard for them to do.
The only problem is all those transitions were on newer, faster platforms (6502->68k->PPC, OS9->OSX, then PPC to x86). Going from x86 to ARM is going to take a serious performance hit because x86 hardware is just way faster than ARM.
But yes, If and when they choose to do it it's probably going to be painless.
"You get "Unknown device" in the device manager and you have no idea what it is or what driver or anything, you can't grab a driver from windows update, because windows update doesn't have it. The only way to know is if the driver is installed that you don't have installed because you don't know what driver you need which is fairly difficult if you're just given a machine, with no information as to what it's components are and expected to install a version of Windows with whatever drivers it needs without opening the case.
At least on Linux you can do a lspci and identify what hardware is there and what drivers you need to install. With stuff like "Hardware Drivers" (in Ubuntu) where you just point and click to install proprietary drivers when you want them, it's not really any worse than Windows at that point."
On Windows you can use the Hardware ID on the Details tab (in Device Manager)
PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68BA&SUBSYS_E144174B&REV_00
Google the string and you will be able to find a driver (just like in Linux). It's also used to make drivers work in OS X by adding a string in the driver (Like I had to do so Leopard would see my SATA drives on my old PC, and its Video card
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If done properly it's gonna be stable, most processors are sold at lower specs to meet market demands.
I've done my 486 (66@80), my AMD 486 (133@160), P166MMX@200, K6-2 266@338, Cel300a@450, Dual Cel300a@450, Athlon XP-m 2500+ @ 3200+ speeds. That one is capable of reaching 2.5Ghz, but not without upping the voltage, thus running at 2.2 stock voltage. Athlon X2 4200+ @ 2.4, P4s have been done, even my Powermac. I never went over 10% over voltage specs, and never tried to reach twice the speeds. If done in a sensible way, Overclocking was a way to boost performance, but I agree that nowadays it's a moot point since even the walmart junk is plenty enough for almost everybody.
OC means running a 150$ CPU at the same specs Intel would like you to pay 800$ for. But yes, for the average user, any modern PC will be fast enough, even the wallmart junk.
Ditto, never had any issues with the two I owned
It probably needs a recap. I had to replace the caps on a Dell Optiplex 280 (wouldn't boot). Now runs flawlessly at a friend's place. cost me about 5$ in capacitors.
Many things today go bad because of either bad caps (Viewsonic VA1912, RCA AV Receiver, that Dell, One of my previous machines, or bad solder joints (thank you lead-free solder, just revived an old 52" RPTV just by resoldering the flyback. Found it on christmas eve, was thrown away because it totally lost its convergence)
Because it looks more like a book this way?
You sir, owe me a new keyboard...
How the heck are you storing your photographs?
I've found some during a major cleanup of my *outside* storage locker. (exposed to winter conditions, high humidity and hot temperatures for the last 12 years). *NONE* of them were deteriorated. I have pictures here (from my great-grandmother) that are still fine, and those are much older than 50 years.
OTOH, my 15 year old undevelloped films won't probably be as lucky (those were inside though)
Undoing mod mistake.
Since ReactOS is clean room reverse engineered, MS wouldn't be able to do squat. Love the irony, since Compaq's reverse engineering of IBM's BIOS launched the clones era...
And when they find the probe, there's gonna be a *made in china* sticker on it :p
Agreed. Night mode properly works on an old inexpensive RCA Theater-in-a-box amp, altough I don't use it that often. I like having dynamic range.
Canada uses Imperial gallons, not US for fuel economy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallon
Right on...
Probably, but I've read something about using 1.2MB floppies with old drives, something about not enough coercivity to retain data for long times. But since a lot of my floppies were notched to make them double-side without any problems whatsoever (even after 30 years), It's probably a moot point
Nope, as bre_dnd said, a 5x86 running at 4*40. (epoxied heatsink only, no fan). My board can do *6, I wonder if it could hit 200Mhz with active cooling :;
Nah... next project is gonna be 64HDD on that old 486. beats flipping disks. at 164K each you can cram a whole bunch of .d64 images on a 20 GB HDD :)
Even better would be a Hard drive
http://www.ide64.org/
the 1084 has composite inputs. The 486 is an AMD 5x86 running at 4*40.
On a side note, many 64s have s-video compatible outputs, that's how the other one is hooked up to my TV
Working, an old C64 (original, still working with modifications made circa 1988) with Amiga monitor, 2 1541 hooked up. (similar setup on my TV)
There's a 160 Mhz 486 (5x86 all ISA & VLB, no PCI) with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite soundcard running under DOS 6.22/Win 3.11 .
Right next to it a 800Mhz PIII with 98SE. Powermac G4 400Mhz with OS9 / Leopard. (those are using a CRT)
There's a 2Ghz G5 iMac hooked up to my home theater (iTunes), my Media Center (XP MCE) and the *newest* machine, a Core2 duo (Win 7 x64 about to go back to x86).
What's saddening is the older stuff works as it is, but I had to recap the iMac, the Media Center, my AV receiver (2003) needed a new relay and caps on the Core2 are starting to bulge (that one is probably 2006)
That's exactly how Bell thinks (Canada). Payphones are less and less used, and they're trying to *raise* the fees to 1$ (double of what it already is).
Don't worry.
Judging by the state of our military hardware the rockets will either fall apart after launch, blow up on the launchpad or lose some parts and fall on a big city.
and driving like you're owning the road. And don't use your flashers, I really hate it when people signal their intentions. And of course, please honk after 2ms at the green light.
And I can't have enough of your crappy sound system when you're parked right in front of my house
I really can't stand Gnome, been using KDE for years
Gotta love how they handled those changes (either hardware or software architecture) so the transition would be almost transparent to users...
6502 to 68k via an add-on board (basically a 6502 on an expansion card to give full 2e compatibility), that one was both a hardware and software transition so a Mac could run Apple 2 apps.
When they switched from 68k to PPC during 7.x or 8 they used emulation again so apps would run on the new architecture, then Classic mode (emulation) when they switched from OS9 to OSX on PPC, then again PPC to x86 via emulation in OSX, everything always going smoothly and transparent for users. So going from x86 to ARM shouldn't be that hard for them to do.
The only problem is all those transitions were on newer, faster platforms (6502->68k->PPC, OS9->OSX, then PPC to x86). Going from x86 to ARM is going to take a serious performance hit because x86 hardware is just way faster than ARM.
But yes, If and when they choose to do it it's probably going to be painless.
"You get "Unknown device" in the device manager and you have no idea what it is or what driver or anything, you can't grab a driver from windows update, because windows update doesn't have it. The only way to know is if the driver is installed that you don't have installed because you don't know what driver you need which is fairly difficult if you're just given a machine, with no information as to what it's components are and expected to install a version of Windows with whatever drivers it needs without opening the case.
At least on Linux you can do a lspci and identify what hardware is there and what drivers you need to install. With stuff like "Hardware Drivers" (in Ubuntu) where you just point and click to install proprietary drivers when you want them, it's not really any worse than Windows at that point."
On Windows you can use the Hardware ID on the Details tab (in Device Manager)
PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68BA&SUBSYS_E144174B&REV_00
Google the string and you will be able to find a driver (just like in Linux). It's also used to make drivers work in OS X by adding a string in the driver (Like I had to do so Leopard would see my SATA drives on my old PC, and its Video card