[dba-Tech] Hardware, Overclocking and Underclocking Machines

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Aug 29 10:26:29 CDT 2013


Hi Stuart:
 
Good point...liquid cooling is excellent suggestion. I don't think they just use water or woter, as it is known south of the equator, now but non conductive oil as even a spill will not cause a melt down.

Jim  

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 3:35:33 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Hardware, Overclocking and Underclocking Machines

What? You should have woter cooled it instead of down-clocking  :-)

-- 
Stuart

On 29 Aug 2013 at 8:53, Mark Breen wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> just wanted to give you all an update on hardware here.
> 
> Since I listened to a podcast a few years ago about building your own PC, I
> started doing the same.  The primary reason I decided to build my own was
> because the podcast asked "Why".  They gave a whole lot of answers, but the
> final one, was "Jedi Warriors build their own light sabres".  That swung it
> for me.
> 
> I built a great machine, i7, over clocked it, three hard disks, two
> graphics cards, three monitors on one machine, and great fans for cooling.
> 
> But one problem, it was noisy.
> 
> I have since built another machine which I am using now.
> 
> i7 IvyBridge Processor, Large CPU heatsink, SSD disk, PSU with no fan.
> Overclocked the CPU to 4.7 GHz.  My Windows Experience Index for CPU, RAM
> and Disk are 8.3, 8.3, 8.1.  That is fast.
> 
> But then I started to notice the noise of the CPU fan, which was almost
> silent.  So I changed the clock speed back to stock which is 3.5 GHz and
> disconnected the fan on the CPU.  My PC now has zero moving parts.  It
> makes the same noise as my cup of tea.
> 
> I am sitting on my office with complete silence working on a PC for the
> first time in my career.
> 
> The i7 IvyBridge processor is still fantasticly fast and as I am typing the
> temp is 38 degrees.
> 
> Next time you build a machine, consider a silent one.
> 
> Finally, and BTW, I love to build machines.
> 
> Mark
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