How old is everyone?

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Well, Intel only release the RDRAM cause they wanted to divide the market completely in to two. With them having a larger market share, they thought this would help them win more market share as more people would have to think twice before supporting AMD. Anyway, they have recently announced that they will be supporting the DDR RAM format in the near future. The RDRAM is a stupid and poor implementation of technology and I believe if Intel continues doing so, they are gonna be crushed by AMD. The good thing about AMD is that they always seek to protect the older and poorer people of the market, like the Socket 7 case. They have never believed in monopolizing the market. Intel has been in monopoly for too long and some competition is good for them.Speaking about processors, my 1000Mhz processor just got burned this morning so I'm using my K6-2 300 now. The processor fan got jammed and i didnt notice it till the processor burned. Now I've got to wait about 1-2 weeks to get a replacement from AMD due to the Chinese New Year holidays. Anyway, i'll probably give me time to look into the FF7 geometry format.
 
Ouch! No hardware monitoring ?PS. My new P3 700 sucks when it comes to overclocking; it won't go over 868 on my Abit BE-6 and only 933 on my friends insanely overclockable BF-6. Why did I have to get the bad one.  :(
 
RAM BUS!!!  :D Overclocking a PC!!!  :D

Overclocking is looking for danger. Nolah, just kidding..Overclocking is fun! I tried to overclock my PC once...tapi tak jadi...
 
Yeah...My sister said something about Qhimm's name...Kim Well if you see say "Qhimm!" a few times..you would say something like "Kill Him!"
 Hey...a 386...I had a 486 once.. 8MB Ram I guess...I was quite fast BACKKKK then....  :D
 
There is hardware monitoring but you see, AMD processors are different from Intel ones.
Intel processors tend to give off signals that they are overheating by bringing up blue screens or halting the PC. New Athlon processors, (because of AMD's ingenius methods) can still run in an overheated enviroment. This makes them able to burn themselves out while running. Besides, i have the temp sensors on my taskbar but it wasnt me using the PC, my dad was using it.
 
Threesixty: I can't check to see if it's still there because my firewall blocks me from the site.  :x But at [url="<a]http://www.pcgamer.com/[/url]" TARGET=_blank>http://www.pcgamer.com/  follow the link to the Q&A section and the guy usually has a link in the Q&A that addresses the pros and cons of RDRAM and why he doesn't recommend it.The SaiNt: I agree. Well, hopefully we can get some stuff done, then.

Jari Huttunen: You wouldn't know anything about overclocking a laptop, would you?  :wink:
 
Good Gollys Master Gerrys  :) (who read the book from which i got this quote will know)Hopefully, tommorow i'm staying home, so its reading time  :)
 
I don't overclock . . .. . . I guess you could call me too careful.  :wink:
 
Srethron: Yes; that it's quite difficult, if not impossible.  :D There are few reasons why they are so difficult to overclock:1) Custom built motherboard. They are built specifically for certain purpose. So there's very small change that clockspeed could be manipulated by jumpers, much less bios. It's likely that they used oscillator that is soldered directly to motherboard. Replacing that oscillator with faster could lead to all kinds of consequences, from interesting to catastrophic, depending on things that get their speed from it.

2) Heat dissipation. Laptop is not exactly the easiest thing to cool. It's very small and not really ventilated at all.

It's best not to try overclocking it, at least until you have something to replace it with.  :)
 
A pity. I figured that was the case, but thought I'd ask. Well... I *could* try to overclock my 386.  :D
 
I think the only way i could overclock mine would be in the jumper settings... cuz its locked up in my bios (P III 550) Phoenix bios... forget the version # though. but i still got my old p III 450 chip lying around here somewhere.
 
overclocking will only take you as high as the motherboard will allow, in your case srethron, i dont think your board even supports 486! so i dont think itll ever get past 33to50 mhz!
 
The Skillster: A friend of mine has some old motherboards for his dead 486 and Pentium 75 lying around. I thought I'd replace the 386's board with one of 'em, fiddle with the settings, turn it on, and call 911.  :wink:
 
hmm, i doubt a 486 motherboard can take a 386. there are different pin arrangements.
i was messing with 486's last year.
 
911, yep those cpu's get mighty hot. ALL cpu's should have heat sinks+fans - in my opinion. have you ever touched a 486 while its running? ouch!
 
On the side note, if you created a 486 with today's technology it would probably be stone cold (due to the massively decreased size).
 
Here my pc history:
Ages ago I had I comouter with 640k ram
Then year later I bought a
P75
8megs of ram
28.8 modem
thenI upgraded it to
p120(was runing at 100)
16 megs of ram(my freind after all these year has this pc and its still chuging along)ThenI got a
PII 233
32 megs of ram
ATI rage pro
then I upgraded to
64megs of ram
A riva tnt

Then I got(and still have)
An atholn 650
128megs of pc100 ram
Sound blaster live value
Riva tnt2 m64
Then I got
an extry 64 megs of ram
And a PRothet II gts PRO 64mb  :)

I found this site ages ago. I registered for this board a while after three sixty. I visited the techdesign site ages beofore it was mentioned on the eidos forum(I dunno how I found it in the first place)


Ah well thats my history hope you didnt find it completely boring  :)
 
The Skillster: You're right. Guess I'll go back to saving my hard earned spare cash.  :(
 
ah, you can grab plenty of used bits from auctions, or grab very good deals in the US.
 
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