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**linderman** · 07-31-2006, 03:50 PM

Interesting results:

I just swapped out the 3.0 ghz P4 processor and installed a Prescott P4
3.2ghz CPU and overclocked it by 15% to 3.6ghz

the hard drive tach results only changed by CPU utilization of 8% instead of 16% all other results remained the same.

So much for the theory that a big overclock improves hard drive read & writes >>> to go from a 3.0 to an overclocked 3.2 and no improvement !

why bother? the heat is rising good though LOL cpu heat rose by 6C without any task really pushing it. Not sure if I would dare to encode a DVD movie with this setting.

I really hate burning money

hmmmmm ?????????????????

07-31-2006, 03:50 PM	#4 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,501 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Interesting results: I just swapped out the 3.0 ghz P4 processor and installed a Prescott P4 3.2ghz CPU and overclocked it by 15% to 3.6ghz the hard drive tach results only changed by CPU utilization of 8% instead of 16% all other results remained the same. So much for the theory that a big overclock improves hard drive read & writes >>> to go from a 3.0 to an overclocked 3.2 and no improvement ! why bother? the heat is rising good though LOL cpu heat rose by 6C without any task really pushing it. Not sure if I would dare to encode a DVD movie with this setting. I really hate burning money hmmmmm ????????????????? __________________ IF YOUR HARD DRIVE DIED RIGHT NOW; WOULD YOU CRY ??? ASK US FOR HELP DEVELOPING A DATA BACK-UP METHOD Last edited by linderman : 08-03-2006 at 05:48 PM.