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 > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com