From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 3 16:24:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.vaxxine.com (alpha.vaxxine.com [209.5.212.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FAB837B405 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 16:24:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (ppp327.digi-t3.st-cath.niagara.net [209.5.218.73]) by alpha.vaxxine.com (8.9.2/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA19260 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 19:24:18 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200203040024.TAA19260@alpha.vaxxine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Paul C. Boyle" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do the newbies get hardware freaky. Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 19:25:26 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <200203040005.TAA05635@alpha.vaxxine.com> In-Reply-To: <200203040005.TAA05635@alpha.vaxxine.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On March 3, 2002 07:06 pm, you wrote: > I saw on a news program In Toronto a little while back, > about geeks and their tweaked up hardware. > They had overclocked chips, cooling fans every place you can think. > Probably with chrome plating. Their boxes were quite decked out as well. > Some had plexiglass side pannels to see the chrome and brass fans spinning. > They did not mention in the program though as to what os they were running. > I suspect some form of Win9x for game playing. > I have a Plll 850 256M of ram on an Asus slot One board. I cannot > overclock this but I find it to be a very stable piece of hardware. If I > had the money I would go for some sort of scsi raid hard drive controler > with 3 10,000rmp drives. Without parity. The read times would top the > box off quite nice. What do you do and what would you like to do, now that > you run the most efficient operating system this side of Starfleet? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message