Recent content by Lagged2Death

I don't think so. That's exactly the problematic approach I'm talking about. If you write code to read the tick counter every second, the "one second" intervals are going to be generated by the same clock you're trying to measure. If you expect (say) 1 billion ticks every second, and the code is...

Well, sure, isn't that the whole point of spread-spectrum? If the clock fluctuation displayed in something like CPU-Z is real, then how could the software -- which is marching along in perfect lock-step with that fluctuating clock -- possibly see it?

I've just built my first PC. I chose an E2180 CPU. I wanted to put together something inexpensive that had lots of upgrade headroom (i.e., it could run Penryn someday). I'd also seen the amazing overclocking results reported for the E21xx parts, and I found that attractive. One of the...

Bingo. Even the cheapest crystal oscillators are very, very stable. On the other hand, complex desktop OSes generally aren't very good at timing things perfectly consistently.

Thanks, that's reassuring to hear. I've been reading up on this stuff but stock operating temperature isn't something the overclocking crowd writes very much about. They're read from where ever SpeedFan reads the temperature labeled "Core 0" and "Core 1." I hope that's from inside the CPU...

Wow, quick on the draw there, Deinonych! I don't know of any way to measure the airflow, but I thought it would be pretty good for a single fan. The entire front of the case is open grille-work, and there's a 120mm fan at the back, which seems to be blowing pretty well. There are no ribbon...

I just built a PC for the first time. I used a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard and an Intel E2180 CPU. I'm using the stock Intel aluminum-only cooler that came with the CPU, and the stock thermal compound that came on the CPU. The system works great. I picked the CPU partly because I had...