Overclocking My Athlon X2 +5000

I don't know what gotten into me yesterday. So i have this new computer for my sister:

AMD athlon X2 +5000
Motherboard MSI K9A2 Platinum (790FX Chipset)
2 GB DDR2
MSI Radeon HD 4650 512mb
SATA 160 GB HDD

Actually, it's a mainstream specification nowadays. But for all application that i had in hand (which is > 5 years old games :P) , this comp is a MONSTER! So i was very pleased with its performance. That was, until i got my eyes at PCSX2, a PS2 emulator. Got too much time to spare, i decided to tried it out. And this application is a killer! I only got 30-35 fps in game (which is about 60% of actual PS2 speed). That's when i remember my long gone obsession.. overclocking!! So i went reading some materials, and easily got my PC to run at 3.0 GHz from 2.6 GHz! Hahaha, i'm surprised! I remember tweaking my PII 450 Mhz PC and got very happy if i can squeeze every extra MHz from it. Now i easily get a whooping 400 Mhz! o boy things have changed don't they? :p

What i did just some BIOS tweak:
1. lower proccessor multiplier to 12x (original was 13x)
2. set the FSB to 250 Mhz (from 200 Mhz) so the proccesor speed = 12 x 250 Mhz = 3 GHz
3. set DDR frequency to 823 Mhz.
4. disable spread spectrum
5. done!

I ran my system all day and it was stable. Got additional 5-10 fps from PCSX2. the system idle at 45C and went to 50C if on load. Good enough from stock cooling. after that i undid the overclocking. The reason? energy saving man! :p

*whew it's been a while i don't get in touch with my geeky side :D

till our blisters have blisters of thier own!

Target: 1500 balls before june!
Current: 900 balls

140409: 150 balls; kang Herman; P, iron 9

unrecorded: 600 balls... sorry.. i was getting lazy :p

120509: 150 balls; alone; iron 6
gosh.. today was an "off" day.

my favorite manga

read right to left

21

Hehe.. baru nonton film ini..

mayan menarik. Tentang apa ceritanya? Diilhami dari kisah nyata tim BlackJack MIT: Ben Campbell adalah seorang mahasiswa MIT brilian (yaeyalaah, MIT!) yang punya mimpi untuk lanjut ke sekolah kedokteran harvard. Sekolah di Harvard Med tuh mahal, sekitar $300k, padahal si Ben ini kaga punya duit. Tapi, karena kebrilianannya (..kata yang aneh), dia direkrut semacem tim kecil rahasia di kampusnya. Ternyata tim kecil ini punya kegiatan yang cukup "unik": tiap weekend maen blackjack di Vegas! Ups, tapi kalo cuman judi doang mah ga usah mahasiswa brilian MIT juga bisa kan? nonono.. karena yang mereka lakukan adalah menaklukan game ini dengan suatu metode penghitungan kartu. FYI: blackjack itu salah satu dari sedikit maenan kartu yang bisa ditaklukan pake pikiran, gak cuma judi doang. Gimana caranya? tonton pilem ini makanya (iklan dikit ah :p).

Hemm.. ada beberapa hal yang jadi pikiran saya nih:
1. hee?! ngapain si Ben ini?? udah lulus MIT masi mau skolah kedokteran di harvard???
2. pas awal film, diliatin adegan si Ben lagi wawancara nyari beasiswa. Walopun dia punya GPA 4.0 (omaigat!) dan lulus MCAT (semacem ujian wat mahasiswa kedokteran) dengan score 42, dia perlu sesuatu yang membuat dia lain dari yang lain. Kalo kata bahasa si pewawancara "something that dazzled me". Wowow... if 4.0 GPA doesn't make u dazzle mister... hehe.. ternyata IP emang bukan segalanya (sedikit pembenaran buat diri sendiri :p). yosh! gonna make my dazzling moment in this year! amen!
3. Ben direkrut ke tim blakjack setelah dia berhasi menjawab Monty Hall problem dari dosennya. Ini menarik loh. silakan diikuti link ini kalo mau tau :D

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tambahan ah
4. Ibunya Ben sempet bilang: " u worked too hard Ben. You should squeeze some time for yourself. You only being 21 once, and that goes very fast." Hehe.. made me looked back to last year but i can say, i've done my 21 to the fullest! hehe

some punchlines!

we believe in the smell of fresh cut fairways at 6:00 AM, fast greens, and always playing for the tips. we don't believe in mulligans. we play it where it lies and concede nothing. we hit it long and our favorite numbers are always red. we are a new breed of athlete. 36 holes a day, hitting balls into the darkest hours of the night until our blisters have blisters of their own. "quiet please" is not in our vernacular. WE PLAY LOUD. WE PLAY HARD.

WE'RE PLAYING TROUGH


hehe.. above is an advertorial of oakley glasses (for golf). I dunno,, something impressed me so much to the point that i went to a local golf shop and actually buy this:

no- it's not an oakley glasses - :p
gonna try a few swings this week! :D