- Joined
- Aug 11, 2003
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
Short story to describe the topic title: in elementary school, my main excuse for not turning in my homework was that I had forgotten it at home. My teachers could see my potential and brains, but I hardly did any homework. One teacher began calling me the 'absent-minded professor' for these reasons. The name stuck and soon everyone was calling me 'professor'.
How does this tie in with computers? Well, it seems that in my last couple of orders I forgot to buy thermal paste! I've been trying to stretch my last small glob of AS1. I'm finally getting around to making my last order for a long time, from SVC. I'm buying some Ceramique, Arctic Alumina Epoxy (cheaper and coordinates better with Ceramique), and these ramsinks to put on my MOSFETs. I'll also be buying a keyboard to replace the one that I recently spilled half a can of coke on, and a couple network cards; one in case my built-in ethernet gets flaky again, and the other to set up NAT on my server machine so I can dodge the rules about IP's at my college.
So... should I get anything else? I'm trying to get my system (in sig) up to 2.3 GHz, but currently it refuses to POST at that speed from anything but a cold boot. I know it's not the fault of the FSB, because my system consistenly gets unstable around 2.3 GHz whether at 12.5x184 or 13x177. How can I get my overclock up to 2300 stably?
EDIT: My current temperatures are 47C load (unknown idle), case temp is 32C near the power supply. Northbridge temp reaches 50C at load. I have a Volcano 11+ on now, but tomorrow I will be receiving an SK-7 - I'll put off attaching it until I get my Ceramique.
How does this tie in with computers? Well, it seems that in my last couple of orders I forgot to buy thermal paste! I've been trying to stretch my last small glob of AS1. I'm finally getting around to making my last order for a long time, from SVC. I'm buying some Ceramique, Arctic Alumina Epoxy (cheaper and coordinates better with Ceramique), and these ramsinks to put on my MOSFETs. I'll also be buying a keyboard to replace the one that I recently spilled half a can of coke on, and a couple network cards; one in case my built-in ethernet gets flaky again, and the other to set up NAT on my server machine so I can dodge the rules about IP's at my college.
So... should I get anything else? I'm trying to get my system (in sig) up to 2.3 GHz, but currently it refuses to POST at that speed from anything but a cold boot. I know it's not the fault of the FSB, because my system consistenly gets unstable around 2.3 GHz whether at 12.5x184 or 13x177. How can I get my overclock up to 2300 stably?
EDIT: My current temperatures are 47C load (unknown idle), case temp is 32C near the power supply. Northbridge temp reaches 50C at load. I have a Volcano 11+ on now, but tomorrow I will be receiving an SK-7 - I'll put off attaching it until I get my Ceramique.