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I guess you will all have to put up with me blogging about my new computer.
Most of the components arrived yesterday - everything but the CPU fan. But
I've got spare 120mm fans laying around, so that didn't stop me from putting
it all together yesterday. Once everything was installed, I turned it on,
and surprisingly (for me anyway), it all worked the first time I flipped the
switch. It was about 10:30pm at that point (I'm slow), so I was going to
simply leave it alone until today, but I just couldn't leave it. I got
Windows 7 installed and then messed around with some overclocking.
Asus actually ships with a utility that "auto-tunes" the overclock for you.
It just keeps raising the speeds and voltages, then testing until your
system crashes. It was getting pretty late at that point, so I stopped
messing with it, but it seemed to really start having trouble around 3.6 to
3.7GHz. 3.5GHz seemed pretty stable, but it's hard to say for certain.
Windows 7 takes about 20 seconds from start to displaying the login prompt,
then only 2 seconds from there to display the desktop. Of course, as I load
more crap onto the machine, that will become slower and slower.
Temps: I was in my basement, where it was perhaps 60F-65F last night. With
no overclock, the system was idling at about 24C. That's crazy cool. OC'd
to 3.3GHz, it was idling at 28C and hit 56C under load. I really didn't
monitor the temps very much, though, so it's possible that they went a bit
higher.
Fun!
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Jeremy "UncleHoot" Praay wrote:
> I guess you will all have to put up with me blogging about my new computer.
Don't worry about it.
> Temps: I was in my basement, where it was perhaps 60F-65F last night. With
> no overclock, the system was idling at about 24C. That's crazy cool. OC'd
> to 3.3GHz, it was idling at 28C and hit 56C under load. I really didn't
> monitor the temps very much, though, so it's possible that they went a bit
> higher.
I'm loving the arbitrary mixture of Celsius and Farenheit.
> Fun!
Indeed.
It's when you try the POV-Ray beta's realtime raytracing with video
underlay that it gets exciting...
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
news:4b7e9e21@news.povray.org...
> Jeremy "UncleHoot" Praay wrote:
>> I guess you will all have to put up with me blogging about my new
>> computer.
>
> Don't worry about it.
As if you had any right to complain. LOL!
>
>> Temps: I was in my basement, where it was perhaps 60F-65F last night.
>> With no overclock, the system was idling at about 24C. That's crazy
>> cool. OC'd to 3.3GHz, it was idling at 28C and hit 56C under load. I
>> really didn't monitor the temps very much, though, so it's possible that
>> they went a bit higher.
>
> I'm loving the arbitrary mixture of Celsius and Farenheit.
I actually noticed that when I typed it up. CPU temps, I think about C, but
ambient/room temps, I think of F. I guess that's how we Americans are...
Perhaps I should also mention that the CPU cooler is about 6 inches high,
leaving my case with only about 1 cm of clearance. ;-)
>
>> Fun!
>
> Indeed.
>
> It's when you try the POV-Ray beta's realtime raytracing with video
> underlay that it gets exciting...
Yeah. I was really tempted to download POV and do some testing, but it was
past midnight, and I knew for certain that I would not be able to walk away
once I started playing with POV.
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>>> I guess you will all have to put up with me blogging about my new
>>> computer.
>> Don't worry about it.
>
> As if you had any right to complain. LOL!
Actually I was speaking from experience. ;-)
>> I'm loving the arbitrary mixture of Celsius and Farenheit.
>
> I actually noticed that when I typed it up. CPU temps, I think about C, but
> ambient/room temps, I think of F. I guess that's how we Americans are...
> Perhaps I should also mention that the CPU cooler is about 6 inches high,
> leaving my case with only about 1 cm of clearance. ;-)
I guess we won't even get into the whole craziness that I know that I'm
6 feet 2 inches tall, but I have no idea how many meters that is. Or
that they sell petrol in litres, but all cars measure fuel in gallons...
>> It's when you try the POV-Ray beta's realtime raytracing with video
>> underlay that it gets exciting...
>
> Yeah. I was really tempted to download POV and do some testing, but it was
> past midnight, and I knew for certain that I would not be able to walk away
> once I started playing with POV.
BEWARE THE LEMNISCATE ZONE! Easy to enter, IMPOSSIBLE to leave!
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Jeremy "UncleHoot" Praay wrote:
> Asus actually ships with a utility that "auto-tunes" the overclock for you.
My graphics card had one of those. I had turned it on (or it had turned
itself on or soemthing) and forgotten about it, and a few weeks later
started getting crashes of the video driver about twice a week, sometimes
including restarting the whole machine. When I realized that was turned on
and turned it off, my machine went back to not crashing.
Just take care, because overclocking leads to unreliability. The factory
already tested the chip and they marked it with the maximum safe speed.
(That's how they decide if a part is a 3.3GHz part, or a 3.0, or a 2.8, etc)
> Windows 7 takes about 20 seconds from start to displaying the login prompt,
> then only 2 seconds from there to display the desktop. Of course, as I load
> more crap onto the machine, that will become slower and slower.
I noticed that, but I don't know why it happens to me (on vista) since I
pretty much turn off or defer all the services I don't need. Vista used to
boot faster than my Linux, but now it's about 1.5 times as long.
Just as an aside, I'm amused that my flat-screen TV apparently runs Linux
(there's instructions in google for getting a root prompt on your TV), and
it takes about 20-25 seconds to power up to where the remote will display
the menu, roughly the same time as the XBox.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
The question in today's corporate environment is not
so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
"what color is your nose?"
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Darren New wrote:
> Just take care, because overclocking leads to unreliability.
This is why I never overlock anything, even though obviously I'd like it
to go faster.
> The factory
> already tested the chip and they marked it with the maximum safe speed.
> (That's how they decide if a part is a 3.3GHz part, or a 3.0, or a 2.8,
> etc)
Not necessarily.
Sometimes parts are sold as 2.8 GHz because they're not stable enough to
run at 3.3 GHz or whatever. And sometimes they're sold as 2.8 because
the 2.8 bin is looking a bit empty this week.
It depends on what production yields the manufacturer is getting, and
how much demand for different CPU speeds there is currently. If lots of
people are buying the cheap 2.8 chips and not many buying the expensive
3.3 ones, they're going to label more of them as 2.8 to get more sales.
So it's just kind of pot-luck as to how much you can overclock your
particular chip. ;-)
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"Jeremy \"UncleHoot\" Praay" <jer### [at] questsoftwarecmo> wrote:
> >> Temps: I was in my basement, where it was perhaps 60F-65F last night.
> >> With no overclock, the system was idling at about 24C. That's crazy
> >> cool. OC'd to 3.3GHz, it was idling at 28C and hit 56C under load. I
> >> really didn't monitor the temps very much, though, so it's possible that
> >> they went a bit higher.
> >
> > I'm loving the arbitrary mixture of Celsius and Farenheit.
>
> I actually noticed that when I typed it up. CPU temps, I think about C, but
> ambient/room temps, I think of F. I guess that's how we Americans are...
I think so... I read that without a second thought.
Charles
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I guess we won't even get into the whole craziness that I know that I'm
> 6 feet 2 inches tall, but I have no idea how many meters that is. Or
> that they sell petrol in litres, but all cars measure fuel in gallons...
I *wish* my cars could display how much fuel was left in some kind of unit.
Every car I've driven so far only has your standard quarter-tank marks on a
dial. In the US they sell fuel by the gallon. (I live in a place where you
aren't allowed to fuel your own car. People get confused if you ever try asking
for a certain number of gallons rather than a certain number of "dollars-worth"
or "full".)
Charles
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Charles C wrote:
> People get confused if you ever try asking for a certain number of gallons
That must be pretty brain-damaged. I could handle that much when I was 12 or so.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
The question in today's corporate environment is not
so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
"what color is your nose?"
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Charles C wrote:
> > People get confused if you ever try asking for a certain number of gallons
>
> That must be pretty brain-damaged. I could handle that much when I was 12 or so.
Try it. (Adding emphasis on the word "gallons" would be cheating.)
Charles
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