On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:33:49 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:24:32 +0000 (UTC), Meat Plow
wrote:

Jeff here is my current machine:

Corsair XMS3 4GB PC12800 DDR3 Dual Channel 1600Mhz AMD Phenom II X4 955
Black Edition AM3 ASUS M4A78T-E AMD 790GX Socket AM3
ULTRA LS600 600W ATX POWER SUPPLY

OK. I'm jealous. I know overclocking can be made to work, especially
if the manufacturers of the board and RAM underspecify their maximum
speeds. So far, there's no evidence that the MSI motherboard was
overclocked, so I'm speculating as to the culprit.

Built in July 2010. Ran for a month at standard CPU clock. Upped 3.2 to
4 ghz in August 2010

Dual boot Mandriva 2010 Power Pack server kernel # uname -r
2.6.31.13-server-1mnb

Have you run Prime95 (Win) or MBench (Linux) benchmark to see if you can
kill it? I use that as my QA test for overkill machines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime95
http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/
I've seen stock non-overclocked hang or overheat running this.

I've run several raw digital videos back to back encoding them to DVD
but even at 10x encode rate I can't get the CPU load up to more than 50%.
Not even enough load to speed the CPU fan up past 1800 which is still an
idle speed.

Don't really need to burn anything in or force a failure artificially. I
might do that if there was a problem.

Windows 7 Ultimate.

Zero problems/anomalies. Rarely use the Windows 7 anymore but had same
stability in Manddriva 2010 and Win 7.

Asus M4A78T-E is the overclocker's choice because of all the timing and
core syncing features.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2379

Nice. One of these days, in my non-existent spare time, I'll build
myself a high end machine. Thanks for the pointers.


$500 got all three items. Probably lots cheaper now Already had an Antec
server case. Has a 120mm fan in back and a vent tube the size of the CPU
fan with access to the
side case so the CPU draws its own fresh air in. The tube covers the top
of CPU fan. I thought it was a great idea.

It's a quiet machine also. Rubber mounted hard drives x3. The case has
sound dampening on the sides and a locking cover for the drive bay. I
can't handle a loud PC.


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