July 9th, 2003, 12:42 PM
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| Underclocking becomes latest computer craze---
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July 9th, 2003, 01:09 PM
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| | it's me
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time to take those old 300Mhz Celeron A's out of the closet 
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July 9th, 2003, 01:09 PM
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LMAO that's a great article
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One gaming clan of underclockers, The TurTle Posse, claims to have never won a match. Founding member Kyle Harding said "No wins and 457 losses. We're proud of that and our 'dial-up only' requirement. Here's how our games usually go: the other team kills us and like five minutes later we find out we're dead. I get like ten frames per minute. That's frustrating as all hell, but that's what underclocking is all about."
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...Some underclockers reported boot up times in the several hour range
| Great find TKOP.
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July 9th, 2003, 01:39 PM
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Reminds me of the hand me down 486DX2 that I started on, with dial up and maybe 16m ram.
If I was attempting to chat with a single girl, by the time my chat got there...she was married with two kids!
I sent one girl a picture of my...by the time it got there it was a picture of my dad!
JP
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July 9th, 2003, 02:47 PM
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I wonder how low you'd have to clock a 1700+ before it didn't need a fan on th heatsink? It could be a good thing for ultra quiet machines. 1700+s are cheap. | |
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July 9th, 2003, 03:08 PM
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LMAO Thats what happens. Some people get real good, and the others cant stand it. So they go backwords to look cool. Such is our wonderful world of opposites. | |
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July 9th, 2003, 03:34 PM
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hehehe, I don't know if I could tolerate going that slow... ugh
Did you check out the other articles on that site? The ones about the Overclocked Jesus & the Overclocked electrical system on the house??? | |
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July 9th, 2003, 04:33 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by prexaspes
I wonder how low you'd have to clock a 1700+ before it didn't need a fan on th heatsink? It could be a good thing for ultra quiet machines. 1700+s are cheap. | I've actualy thought about this. I'd still have a really large heatsink and a large low rpm fan mounted to it (that combo should be plenty quiet) and then set the processor to run a the 200mhz fsb speed instead of 266. That should run cool and quiet.
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July 9th, 2003, 04:48 PM
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Many people underclock cheap Athlons to sub-1GHz levels for use in home theater PC systems. You will likely still need a fan on the heatsink, though rewiring it to 5v for sub-1000rpm rotation will effectively kill most audiable noise.
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July 9th, 2003, 04:57 PM
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including a mod chip that will slow down a hard drive from 7200 RPMs to 500 RPMs.
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