Monday, February 27, 2012

4.0Ghz Part two- 960T BE Overclocking With a Huge Heatsink :D

Disclaimer: Overclocking often puts stress to many components such as the motherboard, the Processor,  power supply and other related parts, Overclocking is often seen as a form of wavering away your warranty, the information and successful  guide lines described here come from many sources and personal experience, be smart and follow the advices, venture at your own risk. 
Welcome back :D, after last times introduction its time we dig right in to overclocking here is what we will need:

AMD 960BE - 6 core processor - 2 cores = 4.0 Ghz
With the Release of AMD's X6 core processor line of models 1055T @ 2.8ghz and 1095T @ 3.4ghz
there has been a steady adoption for the 6 core parts, but as the market still demands Quad processors, AMD cant take a "step back" and produce a whole new batch of 4 cores, instead they can over produce 6 cores, and should 1 or 2 core fail to function, they can easily sell them as a 4 core part, here is where this little gem comes,  Originally crafted as a 6 Core 1095T part, the renamed 960T has 2 cores disabled and the multiplier unlocked, sold as a Black edition for the joy of enthusiasts. (125$ in newegg.com at time of writing)

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

4.0 Ghz for cheap! - The Amazing 960T BE (part 1)



Disclaimer: Overclocking often puts stress to many components such as the motherboard, the Processor,  power supply and other related parts, Overclocking is often seen as a form of wavering away your warranty, the information and successful  guide lines described here come from many sources and personal experience, be smart and follow the advices, venture at your own risk.

Overclocking in the past and today - Slightly Encouraged by Chip makers these days :o
Overclocking has been around for many years, what it essentially entails is to run a microprocessor at a speed higher from what it was designed to, gaining additional speed and performance. frowned upon at first, to avoid damage and scams, and now just recently  used as a sales pitch!

Back in 90's Pentium processors came in a few speeds such as 66mhz 100mhz, 133mhz and 166mhz, and to make each speed increment count, you had to pay premium price tag and decide what was best for you, as by going from  66 to 133 practically meant to double your computing speed and power.
Intel Pentium A80501-66 SX837 processor logo no ICOMP
the old pentium 66 mhz!

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

HDD Defragmentation - How it works and Why it works!

Many of us have come across the term "De Fragment your Hard for increased speed" or  "you have to De Frag your drive to keep it fast" and even "A full drive makes your computer slower" (a fuller drive worsens fragmentation)

SO WHY DOES IT WORK? - Think about Tetris!... sorta
Our hard drives are Spacious big entities where we dump our Operating system, data, pictures videos and other personal files, each file has a certain size, data is written onto the hard drive in blocks of information, small files take 1 or few blocks, while big and larger file take much many blocks, Have you ever played TETRIS? well, your computer plays Tetris too every time it saves files!
Each color represents a file, new big files will be split inside 
those empty spaces! Fragmentation in a nutshell!