- Joined
- Jan 15, 2001
- Location
- Denver, CO
Today I discovered just how lazy I've been with my farm. Last summer I had all of my machines up on the second floor of my house in one room. Needless to say it created quite a bit of heat, and I even had to slow down several of my boxen to keep them running reliably. In late summer I put shelves up in the basement and moved them down there. That was quite an undertaking, so I failed to tweak the machines after moving them to a cooler spot. Time went by and I forgot about it. Fast forward to now. I decided to upgrade a few of them, and sell the old chips. It has been so long since I built some of them that I forgot the original specs on some of the machines. Last night I started poking around to see what each box was built with and actually clocked at. Well it quickly dawned on me that I had just left these boxes underclocked to mostly 1GHz. There was even a 1.4GHz chip running at 1.1GHz. I had forgotten all about the summer heat problems. Turns out I've had quite a bit of power going unused. I should really be able to kick my output up a notch with tweaking upgrades. It won't beat AMD mobo, but it can't hurt So I say to all yee Seti friends - go and tweaketh your farm, or add fertilizer or something