Comment Lights in my case.. cool whip in my head? (Score 1) 288
I just can't help but comment on the HUGE generalizations he is making about anyone who overclocks their PC.
When he brings the hot-rod stereotypes in, and then goes on to draw these parallels between the two camps, it really leaves me with the impression that he thinks overclockers are stupid meatheads. As if anyone who really knew what it was like to say, work for Intel would never consider such a ludicrous plan..
There are those who are on the fringes and yell conspiracy, but most of this is because of the "speed bins" he mentions.. As if a P4 3.4 needs to cost 2 or 3x as much as a P4 2.8 or 3.0. P4 Extreme addition is almost $1k. This is what makes people angry. The fact that i can run my P4 2.6 at 3.2 and benchmark exactly the same as a P4 3.2 is what makes overclocking fun. I notice real world speed increases on media encoding, etc.. my computer doesn't crash every 10 minutes, or with a any frequency at all. FYI to people who haven't done it, it's not exactly as easy as just upping the FSB or changing the multiplier. You have to test, run, test, run etc.. often times taking notes and running benchmarks etc.. to achieve a stable overclock.
Pisses me off that he lumps anyone with a case mod or an overclock into a group to scoff at. Modders and tweakers love our computers, and we get enjoyment out of messing with them. There is community for this like other things, but it's not the same as screwing a glass pack on your civic and blasting past yer mom's house. There are legitimate car modders and there are legit overclockers and pc modders. We aren't all dumb a$$es with no concept of the greater computing world.
When he brings the hot-rod stereotypes in, and then goes on to draw these parallels between the two camps, it really leaves me with the impression that he thinks overclockers are stupid meatheads. As if anyone who really knew what it was like to say, work for Intel would never consider such a ludicrous plan..
There are those who are on the fringes and yell conspiracy, but most of this is because of the "speed bins" he mentions.. As if a P4 3.4 needs to cost 2 or 3x as much as a P4 2.8 or 3.0. P4 Extreme addition is almost $1k. This is what makes people angry. The fact that i can run my P4 2.6 at 3.2 and benchmark exactly the same as a P4 3.2 is what makes overclocking fun. I notice real world speed increases on media encoding, etc.. my computer doesn't crash every 10 minutes, or with a any frequency at all. FYI to people who haven't done it, it's not exactly as easy as just upping the FSB or changing the multiplier. You have to test, run, test, run etc.. often times taking notes and running benchmarks etc.. to achieve a stable overclock.
Pisses me off that he lumps anyone with a case mod or an overclock into a group to scoff at. Modders and tweakers love our computers, and we get enjoyment out of messing with them. There is community for this like other things, but it's not the same as screwing a glass pack on your civic and blasting past yer mom's house. There are legitimate car modders and there are legit overclockers and pc modders. We aren't all dumb a$$es with no concept of the greater computing world.
