November 2008 - Overclockers

Bubbles

November 29, 2008 Ed Stroligo 0

When the media talks about the current fiscal crisis, they like to make comparisons to the Great Depression. Or to the 1982 recession or maybe one of the milder recessions since then.

Vista Hits a Cloud

November 28, 2008 Joe Citarella 0

Vista’s less than enthusiastic market response may have more have more to do with the emergence of “cloud computing” as a paradigm shifting technology than any other factor.

Today, we will be looking at a capacitor mod of an ASUS P5K. Let me state at the outset that there is no compelling need to take the soldering iron to this board if you don’t plan on extreme overclocking or pushing a Quad to its max. Frankly, I did it because I had the time and because I wanted to give a pesky ROHS (lead-free solder process) board a shot.There is lot of conjecture and educated guesswork involved and I could not test the board with a quad-core. So, there are no quantitative or qualitative results available. This article is intended to be

Why Mod?

The motivation is to prepare this board for a quad-core CPU. There have been reports of caps blowing up with the P5K series of boards when pushing a quad-core CPU to the max. In most cases the caps that blow up are either on the CPU VRM side or on the source ATX 12V connector side.

There can be two possible reasons booth which have a cascading effect.

Overclocking Turkeys

November 27, 2008 Joe Citarella 0

Overclocking is the art of getting more from less – one great example is what’s been done to the wild turkey to develop the “broad-breasted white turkey” which is on millions of American tables today.

Something To Be Thankful For

November 26, 2008 Ed Stroligo 0

Tomorrow will be the U.S. holiday called Thanksgiving.

More About Denebs

November 25, 2008 Ed Stroligo 0

Can Denebs hold their own against Penryns?

Give Deneb A Chance

November 24, 2008 Ed Stroligo 0

People have had some time to play with the i7s a bit and figure out the various voltages and multipliers and relationships between them all needed to make them purr.