i dont overlock anymore because it outdated

[PsiStar]

I OC & WC my number crunchers. I am an engineering consultant and the quicker I can invoice, the quicker I get paid. The s/w I use can max all cores + Nvidia accel cards for hours. Yes, event the Nvidia K80s are OC although I haven't found a water block that fits so no WC-ing the K80s so far.

However, given Xeons like the 28 core Xeon W-3175X I may never care about Nvidia again. I was considering a Supermicro dual socket m/b for this cpu, but given the excellent performance of ASUS m/bs for OC, probably not. ASUS OC works very well that it's stupid not to take advantage.

In nearly 20 years of OC, I have never lost a CPU even when the WC system ran out of H2O due to my negligence. Startling to see the 1/2" water lines collapsed because of no water & the cpu shut down due to over heating, steam (probably as I wasn't present), and then cooling as the system shut down auto-magically. Yes, I am absolutely a OC-er & WC-er.

 

[mopardude87]

Actually the speed limit is not as high as 85. I know I have driven in Montana with 75 mph, and I think Utah or Neveda has 85.

Got 70 limits near me out here in California. Car wise though most things are always passing my daily driver being a 97 5 speed Corolla. I go 80mph and i feel like i am sitting still. Then i think of this song when i pass a pre 96 Tercel, a Geo Metro or a Prius. Can't forget any and all buses and big rigs.

 

[chrisjames61]

Got 70 limits near me out here in California. Car wise though most things are always passing my daily driver being a 97 5 speed Corolla. I go 80mph and i feel like i am sitting still. Then i think of this song when i pass a pre 96 Tercel, a Geo Metro or a Prius. Can't forget any and all buses and big rigs.

Mopardude's daily driver is a Toyota! I figured it was a Hellcat.

 

[mopardude87]

Mopardude's daily driver is a Toyota! I figured it was a Hellcat.

My last Mopar was a 2 door 1965 Chrysler Newport with a 383. Haven't messed around with the old cars in a while. Got some life stuff going on atm so till its fixed i am driving the Corolla. If a Hellcat was even given to me, it would be on the market and i would be fixing up some Slant 6 or 318 Duster/Dart/Valiant and pocketing quite a bit of cash while still having fun with it. I don't exactly care for people who just buy their fun. I rather build it. The Hellcat may look nicer out the gate but its not a conversation piece either.

Even when i jump back into fixing up something, most projects i find suddenly have been marked up quite a bit. I have been seeing projects with Slant 6 225 motors recently costing as much as i seen 65-67 Mustangs going for. People are either going crazy with their asking prices or people have figured out that there is like 1 63-68 dart for every 5 65-67 Mustangs on the road. The Dodge corporation made quite a few less cars compared to Ford.

 

[chrisjames61]

My last Mopar was a 2 door 1965 Chrysler Newport with a 383. Haven't messed around with the old cars in a while. Got some life stuff going on atm so till its fixed i am driving the Corolla. If a Hellcat was even given to me, it would be on the market and i would be fixing up some Slant 6 or 318 Duster/Dart/Valiant and pocketing quite a bit of cash while still having fun with it. I don't exactly care for people who just buy their fun. I rather build it. The Hellcat may look nicer out the gate but its not a conversation piece either.

Even when i jump back into fixing up something, most projects i find suddenly have been marked up quite a bit. I have been seeing projects with Slant 6 225 motors recently costing as much as i seen 65-67 Mustangs going for. People are either going crazy with their asking prices or people have figured out that there is like 1 63-68 dart for every 5 65-67 Mustangs on the road. The Dodge corporation made quite a few less cars compared to Ford.

Being an older guy I remember when the classic muscle cars were what Detroit was producing. 1972/1973 changed all that and the American car industry never really recovered due to the incompetency of the people in charge of Chrysler, Ford and General Motors. I am a pickup and Wrangler guy and cringe at what they have become.

 

[mopardude87]

Being an older guy I remember when the classic muscle cars were what Detroit was producing. 1972/1973 changed all that and the American car industry never really recovered due to the incompetency of the people in charge of Chrysler, Ford and General Motors. I am a pickup and Wrangler guy and cringe at what they have become.

Yeah i had a 74 Dart sport and despite a brand new engine harness from year one, that thing had nothing but electrical issues. No shorts or splices of any kind yet had issues. Few older friends who had various darts from 63-75 certainly vouch that after 70 most american cars became junk. Best Darts i guess were the 63-64 push button ones. My favorite was still my 67, i had that slant 6 tuned so well one pump to prime the carb and it would start with the flick of a key. Never had a single issue with that one.

One of my friends had a 63 push button convertible and says that one was the best, hes been talking about perhaps finding a running daily driver one that we can work on. Not many of those left. I found a nice local one but it was a 3 on the tree manual. Not a convertible sadly. I suggested if we can't find a convertible to perhaps find a wagon.

 

[BUTCH1]

Being an older guy I remember when the classic muscle cars were what Detroit was producing. 1972/1973 changed all that and the American car industry never really recovered due to the incompetency of the people in charge of Chrysler, Ford and General Motors. I am a pickup and Wrangler guy and cringe at what they have become.

To be fair, (and I'm an older guy too), it was not realistic for the big 3 to guess that the Arab oil embargo was going to happen and previously large sedans with big engines sold well as did high HP muscle cars. Today the industry can build a very fuel efficient small car that is not slow at all but guess what?, good luck selling them, the "crossover" format is all the rage so they concentrate the energy in designing and selling them.

 

[BUTCH1]

i underclock. throttle speed down to save power and run cooler. setting,power and sleep, additional power setting.
it no longer about speed it about efficiency
i no longer use desktop obsolete
i use laptop
mobile pc
winddws 10 '4gb of ram and 32 essd hdd, built in camera and microphone.
hp stream 14.. cheap 100 refurbish on ebay or 200 new at walmart

Many overclock to keep an older system viable, not just because they can. As for your laptop it's laughable, 32 gig SSD?, what does that leave you after the windows install, 22-24 gig?.

 

[mopardude87]

Many overclock to keep an older system viable, not just because they can.

Yup, a 25% oc on a Q6600 can be done with a piece of tape and a little know how. It is a nice way to wake up the system. The newer stuff i haven't overclocked and the Q6600 just begged for that 3Ghz oc. The tape mod works wonders for Oem towers where ocing is not a option.

 

[BUTCH1]

Yup, a 25% oc on a Q6600 can be done with a piece of tape and a little know how. It is a nice way to wake up the system. The newer stuff i haven't overclocked and the Q6600 just begged for that 3Ghz oc. The tape mod works wonders for Oem towers where ocing is not a option.

You might be able to run an E5450 on your rig, I use one on my 775 MB by slightly modifying the socket, (you remove a plastic tab) and they OC to 4.0 Ghz easily plus have a large cache. They run about $20-25 on Ebay complete with the needed piece of tape to isolate a few pins. This is about as fast as 775 can possibly get, although I'm planning a move to AMD Ryzen soon.

 

[mopardude87]

You might be able to run an E5450 on your rig, I use one on my 775 MB by slightly modifying the socket, (you remove a plastic tab) and they OC to 4.0 Ghz easily plus have a large cache. They run about $20-25 on Ebay complete with the needed piece of tape to isolate a few pins. This is about as fast as 775 can possibly get, although I'm planning a move to AMD Ryzen soon.

I no longer have the 775 but that E5450 looks nice. My space is a 8350 now.

 

[Kenmitch]

My last Mopar was a 2 door 1965 Chrysler Newport with a 383.

My last muscle car was a 69 Dodge Dart with a 340 4spd. I think I sold it back around 1984 or so. Dang car was quick!

 

[scannall]

Yeah i had a 74 Dart sport and despite a brand new engine harness from year one, that thing had nothing but electrical issues. No shorts or splices of any kind yet had issues. Few older friends who had various darts from 63-75 certainly vouch that after 70 most american cars became junk. Best Darts i guess were the 63-64 push button ones. My favorite was still my 67, i had that slant 6 tuned so well one pump to prime the carb and it would start with the flick of a key. Never had a single issue with that one.

One of my friends had a 63 push button convertible and says that one was the best, hes been talking about perhaps finding a running daily driver one that we can work on. Not many of those left. I found a nice local one but it was a 3 on the tree manual. Not a convertible sadly. I suggested if we can't find a convertible to perhaps find a wagon.

I had a '65 Dodge Dart GT with the slant 6. It was such a great car. I sold it with a little over 500,000 miles on it, still running strong.

 

[BUTCH1]

I had a '65 Dodge Dart GT with the slant 6. It was such a great car. I sold it with a little over 500,000 miles on it, still running strong.

Iv'e seen those slant 6's endure things you wouldent do to a farm animal and still run strong. Not much on performance, but almost impossible to kill!.

 

[chrisjames61]

Many overclock to keep an older system viable, not just because they can. As for your laptop it's laughable, 32 gig SSD?, what does that leave you after the windows install, 22-24 gig?.

He probably has a couple megabytes of free space for games lol. He must have some kind of inferiority complex about his feeble chromebook compared to a real gaming rig.

 

[chrisjames61]

To be fair, (and I'm an older guy too), it was not realistic for the big 3 to guess that the Arab oil embargo was going to happen and previously large sedans with big engines sold well as did high HP muscle cars. Today the industry can build a very fuel efficient small car that is not slow at all but guess what?, good luck selling them, the "crossover" format is all the rage so they concentrate the energy in designing and selling them.

That is where the profits are. The last American car to really compete with the imports was the mid to late 80's Taurus. Alas Ford let it languish.

 

[BUTCH1]

That is where the profits are. The last American car to really compete with the imports was the mid to late 80's Taurus. Alas Ford let it languish.

Actually, no, not at this time anyway, car sales, (all sizes) are way down, it seems everyone "has" to drive a crossover now. Carmakers garner more profit with higher priced rides vs econoboxes, reason is the labor is close to the same to build either but you can charge $43K for Grand Suburban Eddie Bauer edition.

 

[Shmee]

Ok guys, this has gone way off topic and has run its course. Time to close the thread.