As you can see, it’s quite a long time since my last overclocking related post here. Even the one I’m writing now is not about overclocking, nothing of the latest hardware is interesting at all, so I don’t really bother go out and buy something. When nothing interesting is on the market the things I do is: upgrade the daily use rig. I’m not one of those interested in uber dupah performance, I’m alot more focused on reliability, so I never use the latest stuff for my DU rig…better to have 20 % less of performance but well tested and widely used components. …

Think I never mentioned it but I have a small home server, it was built with a c2d E6600, an Intel G965 mobo and some HDDs. Since 2 weeks ago I was using Ubuntu then I decided it was time to try something better and more challenging than Ubuntu, my choice was CentOS. Why use CentOS ? Because it’s one of the best enterprise class distro with 7 years support and have a good ammount of interesting features like services GUI manager and iptables GUI. …

Today I happen to read somewhere about Intel Rapid Storage and SSD performance. Well, I thought I had already installed it on my notebook but it seems I was wrong, so I did a quick google reserarch and downloaded the software from the Intel site. Someone says this software boosts SSD performance, so I did the usual ATTO benchmark to have a previous / after comparison. before after Having IRS installed gives a huge boost with very small files (dimension <= 8 KB) transfer rate. …

Yesterday Crucial released a new firmware for the whole M4 SSD lineup, the update over 0009 version was needed because of the so called 5200 hours bug. Basicly, every M4 after a power on time of 5200 hours or so will start to hung every hour, this is because something is messed up with the SMART data. This new firmware resolve this bug. Yesterday’s evening I’ve upgraded at this new version of the firmware the M4-128GB I’ve in my Thinkpad. …

After the epic fail experience with Faildozer I dediced to use the latest litres of LN2 to freeze the P4 631 I had laying on the desk for some time. Honestly I didn’t expected to get such high clock. SETUP: CPU: Pentium 4 631 – VCORE 1.95 volt – VTT 1.5 – VPLL 1.6 cooling: Guglio’s CPU pot rev 2.0 MB: Rampage Extreme RAM: Crucial PC3-12800 D9-GTS – 1.9 volt – white slot …

Last friday and saturday I had a 2 day LN2 trip with the CVF and my FX-4100 crap CPU. Results were not good due to the crappy CPU but at least I had fun pushing the setup at its limit. I only had time to test max frequency and do some super-pi 32M, then the CPU died. SETUP: CPU: FX-4100 – vcore 2.05 volt, vmch 1.65 volt cooling: Guglio’s CPU pot rev 2. …

I couldn’t resist, I’ve picked up a CVF to replace the crappy MSI 990FX. Today I had the time to do some tests along with a set of G.Skill 2133c8 and an FX-4100. _CPU: FX-4100 (later I will write down the batch) – vcore 1.5 volt, vmch 1.65 volt cooling: single stage on CPU, everything else air cooled MB: Crosshair V Formula – bios 1003 RAM: G.Skill RipjawX 2133C8 – Elpida MNH-E-Hyper – 1. …

With some hours of delay I’m here writing a post about past year, new year, what I did and what I will do. University in the past year went quite well, I also had the most importart thing: the healt; so really, I’ve nothing to complain about. My usual Christmas trip ended just a bunch of hours ago, now I’m back at home with some new toys to play with. …