published by Boah on Tue, 11/03/2008 - 01:19
Recently I bought a new CPU, motherboard and RAM, and as I've been doing for some time set about trying to overclock it. I already knew that it should do well, many of the recent Intel CPUs, including the Q6600, are known for being good clockers.
In the end I settled on 3.5GHz, which is very good for a 2.4GHz processor on air cooling. I could probably push it a bit further, but 3.6GHz on air got a bit too hot so the cooling would need to be improved in that case.
published by Boah on Sat, 12/01/2008 - 14:42
A while ago I bought an Icy Dock MB-559 external enclosure (which lets you swap drives by means of attaching a tray/carrier to the drive and slot it into the enclosure, but that's an aside), and connected this to the eSATA connector on the back of my motherboard (by today's standards, a slightly aging ASUS A8N32-SLi).
