New Cows

I just added Poindexter, an LGA775 Intel Quad-core computer running at 2.7 GHz per core, overclocked from its base CPU speed of 2.4 GHz. So far, it seem stable at 15% overclocking, so I’ll keep it at that speed until something breaks, then maybe back off on the overclocking. Its nice and toasty warm at 75C on the CPU chip.

Hmm…. I have a little cooling capacity left, so maybe it will work at 20% overclocking? I’ll find out soon ;-)

I used the ASUS Striker Extreme motherboard with 2 GB of RAM and RAID-5 drives for a total of around 230 GB of HDD. This sucker cooks :-)

Its a total gamer system, but I am using it for software development and DNET only. I got a totally riced-out mini-tower computer case, with a light-up Nissan 350Z logo on the front panel. I thought it appropriate, since that is my daily ride to work :-)

Got a hot new DNET workstation? Tell us about it on the blog! Post some pictures too.

Kevin

One Response to “New Cows”

  1. Kevin says:

    Poindexter is having some teething pains, so its OGR rate may fall off a bit. My RAID-5 setup crashed (I thought that wasn’t supposed to happen!), so I had to re-install windoze about 3 times in a row.

    I think I have things stablized, so the OGR rate should pick up again soon. This is a heavily used software development machine, so I may have to back off on overclocking a bit – it is running very hot, even without overclocking. Might be all the hard disk drives in the case running up the internal temperature.

    Kevin

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