Overclocking geekyness

[Confused]

Nice

My old Q6600/Abit IP35 is still running very happily at 3.0GHz in my HTPC, whilst my main PC is rocking an i5-2500k running at 4.5GHz

Not got myself an SSD yet, when I do it'll probably be something like a Crucial M4, I should be getting close to your speeds, as my board has SATA 3

[JayJay]

i5-2500 3.3GHz running at... 3.3GHz Haven't overclocked anything yet, don't feel the need to! Runs perfectly as it is Besides, I've got the 2500 not the 2500k so my clocking abilities are limited on it.

I've been thinking of SSDs, but I've got two Samsung 1TB F3 7200rpm drives in RAID0 at the mo and runs well. Not to mention the price, and can I be arsed re-installing the OS?

Rest of the system:
i5-2500 3.30GHz
8GB Corsair DDR3 1600MHz
Asus P8P67 PRO
Asus GeForce GTX 460 1024MB
Cooler Master GX 750W

And some big fancy cooler. Read something interesting the other day about making your own heat paste for the cooler. From diamond powder. The current stuff uses silver flakes, however diamond transfers heat better. Interesting, and check outn the temp drops: http://www.inventgeek.com/Projects/Diam ... rview.aspx

[Lude-dude]

when buying SSD's been told you need trim support

so they last longer, I got one for my operating system

when I click on my 1tb hard drive the computer slows down for a sec

[indigolemon]

Just stuck an SSD in my Thinkpad T60, played with the settings, and have a cold boot time of just over 3 seconds They really do make a hell of a difference.

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$ systemd-analyze 
Startup finished in 1385ms (kernel) + 1993ms (userspace) = 3379ms

[edit]Just checked, now down to 3043ms

Also, interesting fact on SSD lifespan:

Note: A 32GB SSD with a mediocre 10x write amplification factor, a standard 10000 write/erase cycle, and 10GB of data written per day, would get an 8 years life expectancy. It gets better with bigger SSDs and modern controllers with less write amplification.

[rob quilter]

[Vtecmec]

+1.

[judderod]

LMAO!

Diamond powder wow that's an interesting idea. It shouldn't cost much either I guess cos you can't do very much else with it. I'm tempted to go down the whole lapping and fancy transfer paste route but there really are far more important things I should be doing with my free time!

SSD's are a huge improvement over any rotational hard disk. IIRC there's 2 types of memory used, SLC and something else. The longer lasting one used in intel enterprise class SSD's basically lasts forever. With a company like intel, when they say it'll last xx amount of years/operations, that'll be the absolute minimum it will last under the worst possible operating conditions before it might (and only might) BEGIN to fail. My old SSD's don't have trim, but after using another old one that doesn't have trim either that I bought second hand about 2 years ago, and using it all day every day for work on a PC that's never turned off and had it almost full the whole time I've used it (that's bad for an SSD), it still shows 98% life remaining. Not worth worrying about IMHO.

A complete install of w7 x64 took about 10 minutes start to finish. But then the updates came

[Bio]

The other one is MLC IIRC.
I do love my SSD (Crucial M4). The improvement over rotational disks was day and night, but now I'm used to it, it doesn't feel so snappy