[dba-Tech] Hardware, Overclocking and Underclocking Machines

Or put a 12cm silent fan on the back of the box - those things just suck all the hot air out without making a noise. The noisiest part of my PC is the hard drive!


Jon

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 11:36 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Hardware, Overclocking and Underclocking Machines

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

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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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