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Overclocking is not good for your CPU. It is bad if you go to an extreme. Some overclocking typically won't hurt much. You must have proper cooling though. If the cooling isn't good enough, then your just trying to set it on fire.When your CPU gets to hot....For too long ,then long term damage will occur.

It might be worth it just to defrag and burn movies on a computer set up just for that.. Right now I am trying to figure out just how bad a , Bad Boy Box I want to build...



I am dreaming big... This is my plan!! The hardware is easier to learn than some of the soft ware...

Many people use a free program called 'speedfan' to monitor the temperatures on parts of the board, etc.
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

Then it is all tweaking and cooling from there - right up to liquid nitrogen!

Computer chips are rated by their manufacturers at their minimum speeds, not their max. Its like buying a car rated for 60 mph max, then you take it from there, monitoring head temperatures, exhaust temperatures, etc. Its an expensive limit to overdo - a whole new chip for up to $300 (compared to an engine rebuild in a car for $1,000 's). The biggest problem is memory, it has to be fast or it acts as a bottle neck, likewise hard disk access speed (hence those SSD disks).

I used to do the overclocking thing but you really have to be careful and probably know more than I do, I was never impressed with the outcome. I have recently downloaded the ultimate defrag program which is touted as increasing performance by up to 300 percent. I don't know about 300 percent but I am sure it's at least 100 on my system. I am a flight sim junkie and need all the performance I can muster and this program does exactly what they say it will.

Sharpie, may I ask what defrag program you are using?

Yes.

This should get you there.
http://www.pcaviatornetwork.com/newrele ... oursim.htm

To turn Flight Simulator into Rocket Simulator you would install it on a SATAII solid state drive and upgrade to dual card graphics processor (SLI). That SSD drive, at 6 Terabytes, defragged in under 2 seconds! The problem, of course, if the power shuts down then the active data on the SSD disk is wiped. Its like a giant flash drive. You could fly through the Grand Canyon at mach3.

Sharpie...Very informative site.

Quote from the site:

A Real Quick Summary of What File Fragmentation Is
Each time a file is written to your hard drive, whether during a file save operation or file copy or program installation, files are written to your drive to fit the first available gap. If the file is bigger than the gap, it saves part of the file to that gap and then next part to the next available gap. Each time you delete files, more and more gaps appear. When your PC tries to read a fragmented file, the hard drive heads have to move all around the drive to pickup all the pieces of the file instead of doing it in one read motion. The more fragmented the file, the longer it takes to load that file.
Before And After Visual


Sharpie what about this one:
http://www.disktrix.com/defragexpress_main.htm

Strategic File Placement lets you put the programs that you want the best performance from on the faster performing areas of your hard drive - that is the outer tracks. But that's not all, you can get all of the data that you don't use out of the way onto the slower performing areas of your hard drive - your inner tracks.

Quote Gary:
SATAII solid state drive and upgrade to dual card graphics processor (SLI). That SSD drive, at 6 Terabytes, defragged in under 2 seconds!

What are we talking in cost here ? so much I don't know and need to know...I want to build a Sweet Machine, I am willing to spend a grand or ???? Where do you stop?... I am having way too much fun.

This was a Samsung viral marketing video, they provided the use of the drives for free - I can't imagine how much 6 T would cost - but a 30 gig drive is about $150. You have to find what part is slowing you down - raw computer processing power, memory throughput, data bus, graphics calculations, disk access speed.

It is interesting that I remember an Intel exec explaining that we are pretty well at the max for computer chip power - any improvements now would be at the cost of extreme heat buildup, for marginal gains.

New Flash Drive Holds 50 Terabytes!
To put things into perspective, the average flash drive sold in the US today is between 2 and 4 gigabytes; it takes about 10,000 gigabytes to comprise 1 terabyte. The technology is slated to become available in as little as 18 months. Welcome to science fiction ladies and gentlemen. It only takes a small amount of imagination to conceptualize the effects of such immense data storing capability on modern culture.

Renugopalakrishnan’s team has produced a prototype device and estimate a USB flash drive will be commercialized in 12 months and a DVD in 18 to 24 months. The work has been funded by a range of US military, government, academic institutions and commercial companies, as well as the European Union.


http://www.nowpublic.com/technology/new ... -terabytes
The question is when will this technology be affordable to us. I have a 1 terabyte external at the sale price of $99

Factoid:
a terabyte is EXACTLY 1,099,511,627,776 bytes.