Author: Charles Worthington
Date: 10:27:48 02/20/03
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On February 20, 2003 at 00:13:22, Matt Taylor wrote: >On February 20, 2003 at 00:00:09, Jeremiah Penery wrote: > >>On February 19, 2003 at 23:26:33, Charles Worthington wrote: >> >>>I suppose its ok for a hobby but i need a machine i can leave running for weeks >>>on end. The massive overclocking just isnt for me. 333Mhz maybe but no more. The >>>cooling systems seem to make this pretty expensive i would imagine. >> >>If you spend near $20k on a computer, buying an "expensive" water-cooling setup >>(which should not be more than $500 for that machine) isn't a big deal. Also, >>it has the nice effect of being a whole lot quieter than if you try to use any >>kind of air-cooling. If you try to sleep anywhere near the thing, you'd thank >>yourself for getting the watercooling. > >Watercooling would be pretty nice on 10K SCSI disks, too. > >-Matt The water cooling does sound nice. Perhaps even without the overclocking. But unless I were to overclock I doubt I would have need for it. Certainly the system runs within safe operational temperatures as it is. Even if I were to overclock 10% I would not add anything but_maybe_larger fans. I am certainly not opposed to mild overclocking and never meant to give the impression that I was. I am opposed to clocking 2.5 GHz machines to nearly 4 GHz and I am more than sure that there are many knowledgable people here who would agree that these systems are not the most stable in the world. At our current level of cpu manufacturing technology we are getting the fastest results possible from factory processors without exceeding the processors operational design limits. Perhaps all overclocked processors are not unstable but a certain degree of them are and when you have to start cooling your processor with freon I think it's time to say stop. After all, with one slip the cooling system can drop out and fry the processor. I'll just stick to my factory setting and be secure in my mind that when I need to ask my computer a mathematical question it will give me the correct answer. I may get the answer a few nanoseconds slower than the overclocker but it will be right 100% of the time.
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