Today’s thoughts

Today here the sun is shining, the temperature is in the low twenties and everything is fine.

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I’m sitting here in my room, working on a remote Windows 2003 Server machine that refuses to work properly.
At the same time I’m also having an interesting Skype chat with my friend Marco and writing this post…of course with some good music in the background (Chicane – Easy To Assemble).
I’m allergic to many plants that in this period of the year are flourishing, so no way I’ll put my feet out of my room if not really needed.
Anyway, you have to know that WordPress (the CMS with which this site is built) have an interesting plugin called: Jetpack.
Jetpack is basically a suite of tools which came handy in case you want to monitor your site, one of the tools is called “Site Stats”.
The name is pretty auto-explicative, it shows how many people visited the site, which are the most visited pages and so on.
Here are the visits this blog had in the past 30 days:

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As you can see, in the top 5 most viewed articles there is NONE about overclocking; and even more interestingly the by far most viewed one is a simple writeup (I don’t consider it a guide) about how I had configured a Samba share on a Centos 6.2 machine.
Now, the things are three:
1- I’m the most dumb overclocker ever;
2- I’m the best guys in the world in managing Samba servers over Centos and writing “tutorials”;
3- or…or…it’s just that overclocking is dead.

Well, after had tough about it a bit the third option is the one that results the more probable.
All the sites that since 2 or 3 years ago were mainly focused on extreme overclocking now are dead/semi-dead or are trying to convert themselves to other areas more attractive for the masses.
Since not so many years ago there were many people who didn’t do extreme overclocking which posted on forums and were are least a bit interested in what we do, right now they all seem gone.
Is quite sad to see how people is no longer interested in overclocking, or at least in the real overclocking, the extreme one.

AMD and LN2

Yesterday’s afternoon and today I had a LN2 trip with two AMD setup.
I was aiming to break the 7 GHz wall with the trusty Phenom II 955 B.E. and improve my precedent results on socket 939 with the Opteron 148.
I failed in reaching 7 GHz with the 955, tho I managed to improve just a little bit my Super-pi 1M score…still not satisfied with it but it is better than nothing.
Also got the time to play with UCbench in which I got quite easily the first place on the bot in the 955 B.E. category.

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.:. SETUP_0:
CPU: AMD Phenom II 955 B.E.
cooling: Guglio’s CPU pot 2.0 (CPU)
MB: MSI 890FXA-GD70 – bios 1.86 beta
RAM: Kingston HyperX 2000 cas8 – Elpida MGH-E-Hyper – blue slots
VGA: nvidia 6200 LE 256 MB PCI-E
HDD: Kingston SSDnow 60 GB sata2
PSU: PCP&C 1200
OS: 2k3 server TW

.:. Super-PI 1M :: 10.297 s – 955 B.E. @ 6732 MHz

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.:. UCbench :: 1092.3 pt – 955 B.E. @ 6110 MHz

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Here comes the funny part, AMD socket 939.
Still the same stuff as the precedent posts, except for the cooling method.

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.:. SETUP:
CPU: Opteron 148 cabrio @1.5*123% volt – CABYE 0536GPMW
cooling: Guglio’s CPU pot 2.0/Single Stage (CPU) and Guglio’s CPU pot 1.0 (RAM)
MB: DFI nForce 4 Ultra-D – bios 623-2
RAM: Corsair PC3500C2 2×256 MB :: Winbond BH-5 – yellow slots
VGA: nvidia 6200 LE 256 MB PCI-E
HDD: Kingston SSDnow 60 GB sata2
PSU: PCP&C 1200
OS: 2k3 server TW

.:. Super-pi 1M :: 23.547 s :: Opteron 148 @ 3565.1 MHz :: Corsair PC3500 @ 297.1 MHz 1.5-2-2-3 1t 3.8 + 0.03 volt

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Some more frosty photos.

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.:. UCbench :: 76 pt :: Opteron 148 @ 3520.3 MHz :: Corsair PC3500 @ 293.4 MHz 1.5-2-2-3 1t 3.8 + 0.03 volt

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.:. Maxxmem :: 715.8 pt :: Opteron 148 @ 3565.1 MHz :: Corsair PC3500 @ 297.1 MHz 1.5-2-2-3 1t 3.8 + 0.03 volt

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I’m not done but the dewar is completly empty, too bad I didn’t had enough LN2 to do the king of all benchmarks: Super-PI 32M.
Will do it the next time hoping to finally break this damn 21 minutes wall.

Cheers
Fabio

Opteron 148 and 32M, lot of…time

What is the best way to kill time when you have close to nothing to do ?
Easy, run Super-pi 32M using an CPU which takes more than 20 minutes to complete each run…so I did it and killed with easy 8+ hours trying to pull, tho without success, a sub 21 min 32M run with my trusty Opteron 148.
Anyway, the result is still kinda worth to be posted here.

.:. SETUP:
CPU: Opteron 148 cabrio @1.5*123% volt – CABYE 0536GPMW
cooling: Single Stage (CPU)
MB: DFI nForce 4 Ultra-D – bios 623-2
RAM: Corsair PC3500C2 2×256 MB :: Winbond BH-5 – yellow slots
VGA: nvidia 6200 LE 256 MB PCI-E
HDD: Kingston SSDnow 60 GB sata2
PSU: PCP&C 1200
OS: 2k3 server TW

.:. Super-pi 32M :: 21.00.63 :: Opteron 148 @ 3520.3 MHz :: Corsair PC3500 @ 251.5 MHz 1.5-2-2-3 1t 3.8 + 0.03 volt

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Sub 21 is definitely doable, will give it another try one of the upcoming days.