Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Aug 29 10:06:28 CDT 2013
Hi Mark: That all sounds very impressive. What mother board(?) did you use? Because of noisy computers I run everything from the kitchen table, close to the coffee, via remote connections and just assign tasks to each remote server and pick up or be sent the results went completed. This method does not give me immediate access to all the excellent screens but I can then wander, unencumbered, virtually anywhere in the yard. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Breen" <marklbreen at gmail.com> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 12:53:08 AM Subject: [dba-Tech] Hardware, Overclocking and Underclocking Machines 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 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com